It really can not apply to you or me." "Once for all, do you refuse to return them to me ?" said Prince, pale with anger.
"Decidedly." "Very well, sir! We shall see." He stepped to the corner and rang a bell.

"I have summoned my manager, and will charge you with the theft in his presence." "I think not." "And why, sir ?" "Because the presence of a third party would enable me to throw this glove in your face, which, as a gentleman, I couldn't do without witnesses." Steps were heard along the passage; Prince was no coward in a certain way; neither was he a fool.

He knew that Carroll would keep his word; he knew that he should have to fight him; that, whatever the issue of the duel was, the cause of the quarrel would be known, and scarcely redound to his credit.

At present there were no witnesses to the offered insult, and none would be wiser.

The letters were not worth it.