Godfrey burst into a scornful laugh.
"You fool!" he said; "you need not be afraid; I can see you are speaking the truth.

You dare not tell me a lie!" "It is enough," returned Tom with dignity, "that I do not tell lies.

I am not afraid of you, Mr.Wardour.What I dare or dare not do, is neither for you nor me to say.

You are the older and stronger and every way better man, but that gives you no right to bully me." This answer brought Godfrey to a better sense of what became himself, if not of what Helmer could claim of him.

Using positive violence over himself, he spoke next in a tone calm even to iciness.
"Mr.Helmer," he said, "I will gladly address you as a gentleman, if you will show me how it can be the part of a gentleman to go prowling about his neighbor's property after nightfall." "Love acknowledges no law but itself, Mr.Wardour," answered Tom, inspired by the dignity of his honest affection for Letty.