Au contraire mon frere, before the Bombe Glace, which I prefer with strawberries, is served, I have sounded them, deftly, as to the how and the why and the wheretofor of their lives. Yes, indeed, I is old but there ain't no dust on me; I is a wily thing at table with a stranger and cads, bounders, hustlers and ne'er do wells are easy nuts to crack for me.