..... the opportunity, & the ladies, and locked them in a bungalow ..... not with nefarious intent, but just because people tend to always bugger off when Ratso gets somewhere near the most interesting (sic) part of his stories (a bit like your grandfather locking neighbours in for a slide night to show them all the zoos that he visited around the world).
Cappy, being octolingual was able to get through to both ladies simultaneously in their own native lingo, and the girls were rivitted (one was like Onesie and had apparently only been rivetted once previously) so Cappy's story went .....