It seems to me you would exhibit far better taste and discrimination if from now on you would cease forcing your attentions upon Miss Gillis." Brant leaped to his feet, but the other never deigned to alter his position.
"Forcing my attentions!" exclaimed the officer.

"God's mercy, man! do you realize what you are saying?
I have forced no attentions upon Miss Gillis." "My reference was rather to future possibilities.

Young blood is proverbially hot, and I thought it wise to warn you in time." Brant stared into that imperturbable face, and somehow the very sight of its calm, inflexible resolve served to clear his own brain.

He felt that this cool, self-controlled man was speaking with authority.
"Wait just a moment," he said, at last.

"I wish this made perfectly clear, and for all time.