I do not want to have messages by anybody.
But go on.

If you are a messenger, give your message." "Lady Ongar bids me tell you that she cannot see you." "But she must see me.

She shall see me!" "I am to explain to you that she declines to do so.

Surely, Count Pateroff, you must understand--" "Ah, bah; I understand everything--in such matters as these, better, perhaps, than you, Mr.Clavering.You have given your message.

Now, as you are a messenger, will you give mine ?" "That will depend altogether on its nature." "Sir, I never send uncivil words to a woman, though sometimes I may be tempted to speak them to a man; when, for instance, a man interferes with me; do you understand?
My message is this: Tell her ladyship, with my compliments, that it will be better for her to see me--better for her, and for me.