I don’t mean that. You know I don’t, Janet. I loved you, of course. That goes without saying. I’d have married you like a shot before, only the Governor would have made such a fuss. The Governor was so awfully straitlaced about this sort of thing. When I was sent away from Eton he made the most ghastly fuss.
JANET
Were you sent away from Eton for “this sort of thing”?
MONTY
Yes—at least I don’t mean that either. But it was about a girl there. He was frightfully wild. He threatened to cut me off if I ever did such a thing again. Such rot! As if no one had ever been sent away from school before!
JANET
(reflectively)
I didn’t know you’d been sent away from Eton.
MONTY
Didn’t you? I suppose I didn’t like to tell you-for fear of what you’d think (bitterly). I seem to have been afraid of everything in those days. .