Alec.

[With a laugh.] Why?

Dick.

You take food for the gross and bestial purpose of appeasing your hunger. You have no appreciation for the delicacies of eating as a fine art.

Alec.

The meat's getting rather mouldy, isn't it?

Dick.

Damnable! It's been a source of great anxiety to me in England.

Alec.

What is he talking about now?