"M.

Kapp, turn him out; or, M.de Bellegarde, pitch him into the pit, into the orchestra--anywhere! I don't care who does which, so long as you make a scene." Valentin answered that they would make no scene, but that the gentleman would be so good as to step into the corridor with him.

In the corridor, after a brief further exchange of words, there had been an exchange of cards.

M.Stanislas Kapp was very stiff.

He evidently meant to force his offence home.
"The man, no doubt, was insolent," Newman said; "but if you hadn't gone back into the box the thing wouldn't have happened." "Why, don't you see," Valentin replied, "that the event proves the extreme propriety of my going back into the box?
M.Kapp wished to provoke me; he was awaiting his chance.