We are not to be treated like plebes, especially by any members of our own class who may be dressed in a little brief authority.

Sit down, won't you, Stubbs ?" "No, thank you, Jordan.

I must be on my way soon." "But I want to get you and a half a dozen other representative first classmen together," wheedled Jordan.

"I think we should all talk this over as a strictly class matter.

Then, if I'm convinced that I'm in the wrong, I'm going to stop talking." Crafty Jordan didn't mean exactly what he said.
He would stop talking, if convinced, but he didn't intend to be convinced.