The Bachelors Stripped Bare by Their Bride

A.B.C.		‘The three of us discussed your masterpiece –’
D.		‘Splendid, my boys! I don’t know whether –’
A.B.C.		‘And we decided we should like to ask –’
D.		‘It overheard you; it and I are no longer on
		the best of terms. I have –’
A.B.C.		‘How far you feel your concept still holds good.’
D.		‘an idea it disapproves of the use I made of what
		it earned me. That was a happy time!’
A.		‘Would you, for instance, do the same again?’
D.		‘I couldn’t, if I tried. I’m senile. I’m happy too;
		besides, this is a most progressive age and I spend
		all my time with these little…’
B.		‘Your work was hailed in nineteen-ten as being –’
D.		‘They said all sorts of things. I remember
		there were two red-haired brothers –’
C.		‘And some of us have still not quite caught up!’
D.		‘My dear young friends, remember this: I am a very
		elderly Frenchman. The thing
		that has interested me most through my life
		is eroticism. God bless us all.’
A.B.C.		‘That doesn’t quite –’
D.		‘– Including you. Goodnight.’