Holidays are changed, like all else, since old buffers were young boys.

It's only old buffers like you, Arthur, who sit maundering on about young girls.'

So, yeah, I stay suspicious these days -even when I'm having tea with likable old buffers.

Was this bunch of old buffers going to decide between Finch and himself on the basis of such irrelevant questions?

There will, no doubt, be some tut-tuts and "it's not lawn tennis" criticism from some of the old buffers and blazers.

"When we're old buffers, we shall be as ugly as this," says Tirette.