'But you do not seem, M.de Berault, to comprehend the difficulty.

If we do not settle things now, we shall be bickering twenty times a day.' 'Well, what do you want ?' I asked impatiently.
'Simply to know how you are going to proceed.

So that our plans may not clash.' 'But surely, M.le Capitaine, that is my affair,' I said.
'The clashing ?' he answered bitterly.

Then he waved aside my wrath 'Pardon,' he said, 'the point is simply this.

How do you propose to find him if he is here ?' 'That again is my affair,' I answered.