Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour

by W. Somerset Maugham

And what do you do with yourself?

Mereston.

Oh, hang about generally, you know—and there's always the tables.

Fouldes.

That's right, my boy; I'm glad to see that you prepare yourself properly for your duties as a hereditary legislator.

Mereston.

[Laughing.] Oh, shut it, Uncle Paradine.

Fouldes.

I rejoice also to find that you have already a certain command of the vernacular.

Mereston.