He stood up stiff as a poker.
'I do not say; I ask!' he replied, facing me squarely, and slapping his fist into his open hand to drive home his words the better.

'I ask you whether you are playing the traitor to the Cardinal, or to these two women?
It is a simple question.' I fairly choked.

'You impudent scoundrel!' I said.
'Steady, steady!' he replied.

'Pitch sticks where it belongs, and nowhere else.

But that is enough.