I leapt to my feet.
"Messer Fifanti," I blazed at him.

"I'll not remain to hear such words addressed to this sweet lady." "Ah, yes," he snarled, wheeling suddenly upon me as if he would strike me.

"I had forgot the champion, the preux-chevalier, the saint in embryo! You will not remain to hear the truth, sir, eh ?" And he strode, mouthing, to the door, and flung it wide so that it crashed against the wall.

"This is your remedy.

Get you hence! Go! What passes here concerns you not.