But----" "Oh, don't be a fool!" said Hollanden, glaring through the smoke.

"Under the circumstances, you are privileged to rave and ramp around like a wounded lunatic, but for heaven's sake don't swoop down on me like that! Especially when I'm--when I'm doing all I can for you." "Doing all you can for me! Nobody asked you to.

You talk as if I were an infant." "There! That's right! Blaze up like a fire balloon just because I said that, will you?
A man in your condition--why, confound you, you are an infant!" Hawker seemed again overwhelmed in a great dislike of himself.

"Oh, well, of course, Hollie, it----" He waved his hand.

"A man feels like--like----" "Certainly he does," said Hollanden.