We are agreed on that?
Very well.

I may have mentioned my intelligence?
And that I rate it highly?
Yes?
Very well, then.

I shall now demonstrate that my self-appraisal was justified by admitting that my judgment on this occasion was at fault.

Eric's theories as to our delayed news from our expedition are sound; they work out; they prove themselves.
The same is true of his very direct and lucid statement as to the nature and cause of the difficulties which now beset us.

I now make the direct appeal to you, Eric: As a candid man or mouse, what would you do next ?" Tall Eric bent his brows darkly at the gambler.
"If you mean that I fear the man Johnson at all, why do you not use tongue and lips to say that same?
I am not greatly chafed by an open enemy, but I am no great hand to sit down under a mock." "It was your own word--the mice," said Dewing.