His tone suddenly became more serious.

He pointed to the menu.
"They have dared," he exclaimed, "to bring us _Hollandaise_ sauce with the asparagus! A gastronomic indignity! It is such things as this which would endanger the _entente_ between our countries." "I don't mind _Hollandaise_" Norgate ventured.
"Then of eating you know very little," Herr Selingman pronounced.

"There is only one sauce to be served with asparagus, and that is finely drawn butter.

I have explained to the _maitre d'hotel_.

He must bring us what I desire.