Christopher said:
"I never spent a penny on a woman in my life."
Mark said:
"Ah!"
They crossed Holborn and went by the backways towards Fleet Street.
Christopher said:
"When I say 'woman' I'm using the word in the ordinary sense. Of course I've given women of our own class tea or lunch and paid for their cabs. Perhaps I'd better put it that I've never—either before or after marriage—had connection with any woman other than my wife."
Mark said:
"Ah!"
He said to himself: