"Pooh-Bah. (With a great effort) How de do, little girls, how de do? (aside) Oh, my protoplasmal ancestor!

Ko-Ko. That's very good. (Girls indulge in suppressed laughter.)

Pooh-Bah. I see nothing to laugh at. It is very painful to me to have to say "How de do, little girls, how de do?" to young persons. I'm not in the habit of saying "How de do, little girls, how de do?" to anybody under the rank of a Stockbroker."