Capella was reduced to a condition of speechless rage.
"You consider yourself the aggrieved person, I suppose," went on the Englishman, subsiding into a state of contemptuous placidity.

"You neglect your wife, make love to an honourable and pure-minded girl, stoop to the use of unworthy taunts and even criminal innuendos, lose such control of your passion as to lay sacrilegious hands upon Helen Layton, and yet you resent the well-merited punishment administered to you by her affianced husband.

Were I a surgeon, Mr.Capella, I might take an anatomical interest in your brain.

As it is, I regard you as a psychological study in latter-day blackguardism.

Do you understand me ?" "Perfectly.