19/26 "I told you not to ask questions before. Where should I learn, but in America? "Do you, Mr.Arbuthnot, always spend your evenings like this ?" "How like this ?" "Why, going around in a swallow tail to drawing-rooms with the women, like a tame tom-cat. If you do, you must be a truly good young man. If you don't, what do you do ?" "Very often I spend my evenings in a drawing-room." "Oh, Lord! Do most young Englishmen carry on in the same proper way ?" "Why not ?" "Don't they go to music-halls, please, and dancing cribs, and such ?" "Perhaps. |