We all do it, sooner or later.

Too late?
Not a bit of it; better too late than never, and if it's that Cautley man I'm sure I don't wonder.

I'm in love with him myself.

Lost your self-respect, have you?
Self-respect, indeed, why bless your soul, you are all the nicer for it.

As for hiding your head I never heard such rubbish in my life.