Blenkinsop.

How old are you, dear boy?

Freddie.

Twenty-two. Why?

Blenkinsop.

The delightful age when it’s still possible to feel desperately wicked. But you are old enough to have learnt that the moods of women are inscrutable.

Freddie.

Oh, rot! I never met a woman whom I couldn’t read at a glance.

Blenkinsop.

[Ironically.] Really?