‘Oh, I have met your mother before, you see. Nothing else?’
‘No.’
‘Haven’t been an ass about a girl or anything of that sort?’
‘Good lord, father!’
‘I shouldn’t have said it. In my young days we sometimes——It’s all different now.’
‘I don’t know. I could tell you things that would surprise you.’
‘No! Not about yourself?’
‘No. At least——’
‘Just as you like, Roger.’
‘It blew over long ago.’