What Every Woman Knows

"[...]his arm when conducting a lady home under an umbrella from a soiree, and has both chuckled and been scared on thinking of it afterwards. JAMES, a commoner fellow altogether, has discussed the sex over a glass, but is too canny to be in the company of less than two young women at a time.] DAVID [derisively]. Oho, has she got you, James? JAMES [feeling the sting of it]. Nobody has got me. DAVID. They'll catch you yet, lad. JAMES. They'll never catch me. You've been nearer catched yourself. ALICK. Yes, Kitty Menzies, David. DAVID [feeling himself under the umbrella]. It was a kind of a shave that. ALICK [who knows all that is to be known about women and can speak of them without a tremor]. It's a curious thing, but a man cannot help winking when he hears that one of his friends has been catched. DAVID. That's so. JAMES [clinging to his manhood]. And fear of that [...]".