Heavens, how you cultivate respectability!

Mrs. Crowley.

It's a sensitive plant whose vagaries one has to humour.

Dick.

Aren't you delighted to be back in town?

Mrs. Crowley.

London's the most charming place in the world to get away from and to come back to. Now tell me all you've been doing, if I can hear it without blushing too furiously.

Dick.

My behaviour would have done credit to a clergyman's only daughter. I dragged Alec off to Scotland after that horrible scene at Lady Kelsey's, and we played golf.

Mrs. Crowley.