“Well, but … they’re girls … young ladies … I don’t think it’s quite proper.”
“You’re a silly fool!” laughed Sanine, “Do you mean to say that you wouldn’t like to see them?”
“Perhaps I should, but …”
“Very well, then, let’s go. No mock modesty! What man wouldn’t do the same, if he had the chance?”
“Yes, but if you reason like that, you ought to watch them openly. Why hide yourself?”
“Because it’s so much more exciting,” said Sanine gaily.
“I dare say, but I advise you not to—”
“For chastity’s sake, I suppose?”
“If you like.”
“But chastity is the very thing that we don’t possess!”