"If you think I have practised the small-sword every day of my life for ten years to suffer myself to be shot at like a rabbit in the end--ho, really!" He laughed aloud.

"You have challenged me, I think, Sir Terence.

Because I feared the predilection you have discovered, I was careful to wait until the challenge came from you.

The choice of weapons lies, I think, with me.

I shall instruct my friends to ask for swords." "Sorry a difference will it make to me," said Sir Terence.