But now, this minute...

I have waited for you too long." "Certainly, half an hour if you like, but not more, if that will suit you." "And on condition, too," Shatov put in wrathfully, "that you take a different tone.

Do you hear?
I demand when I ought to entreat.

Do you understand what it means to demand when one ought to entreat ?" "I understand that in that way you lift yourself above all ordinary considerations for the sake of loftier aims," said Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch with a faint smile.

"I see with regret, too, that you're feverish." "I beg you to treat me with respect, I insist on it!" shouted Shatov, "not my personality--I don't care a hang for that, but something else, just for this once.