I do not yet understand by what right you intrude into a private room here." He laughed hardly.
"'Intrude'!" he cried.

"One does not call it that.

'Intrude,' when I find you two together, eh ?" I turned to the girl, who, with her handkerchief dabbed to her eyes, was still affecting a perfect frenzy of fear.
"Has this person any claims upon you ?" I asked.

"He seems to me to be an exceedingly disagreeable fellow." Bartot's face grew purple.

His cheeks seemed to distend and his eyes grow smaller.