'Well!' he said presently, 'what have you been doing with yourself all these years?'
I told him of my marriage and my partnership in a big city house.
'Phew!' he said. 'Monstrous dull, isn't it? As for me, I never intend to marry. And if you don't marry, what do you want with money? You used to despise it enough once. And do you remember our favourite line: "Our loves into corpses or wives?"'
'Hush!' I said, for wives have ears.
'Is it Alice Sunshine?' he asked.
'No,' I said, 'not Alice Sunshine.'
'Maud Willow?'
'No, not Maud Willow.'
'Jenny Hopkins?'
'No, not Jenny Hopkins.'