1st Member: Sorry to be the one to tell you, old chap, but the first thing that that despicable Grosscanard did after returning from his exile - I still think that you should have pushed to have the bounder executed - was steal your ex-wife from that Cowardly Whatshisname in your old regiment. 2nd Member: Quite appropriate really, a perverted rake stealing a whore from an unprincipled cad. If truth be told I haven't been following the antics of any of them for a long time - too much work at Army HQ. 1st Member: But don't you see what this presages? Grosscanard is bound to use the fact to begin all sorts of rumours along the lines of your being inadequate as a husband, having bizarre sexual tastes, and so on... 2nd Member: So long as the more ignorant Parisians maintain their voracious appetite for scandal then some charlatan or other will cater to it. Where this particular subject is concerned there is only one person whose opinion I give a fig for and, not wishing to sound indelicate, she has considerable practical experience of the true state of affairs...
