"Obligatory, dear boy. It’s one of life’s little ironies that even though, as every decent Englishman knows, the French are the most dastardly and treacherous nation of bounders in the history of the world, we buy three times as much of their fizz as any other nation does. More than they do themselves these days, but that’s because they’re too lazy and indolent to be able to afford it," he replied cheerfully.