[They laugh.

Selina: Ninian is first-hand information.

Mrs. Martineau: What do you mean?

Selina: That you learn all there is to be learnt the first time.

Lord William: No one can tell you anything about him. The whole truth is revealed in five minutes.

Selina: Yes, indeed. It doesn’t take a detective to know what Ninian is like.

Lord William: He is the family masterpiece.

Selina: By marriage.

Molyneux: A very inconvenient institution, marriage. Illogical when you want one thing, to have another.