"Many things. I play music, and games, and I go to exhibitions. I read…."
"You would do better to read your school-books."
"We never read anything interesting in school…. Besides, we travel.
Last month I went to England to see the Oxford and Cambridge match."
"That must help your work a great deal!"
"Bah! You learn much more that way than by staying at the lycée."
"And what does your mother say to that?"
"Mother is very reasonable. She does whatever I want."
"You bad boy!… You can thank your stars I am not your father…."
"You wouldn't have had a chance…."
It was impossible to resist his banter.