"Do you mean that he wi11 keep it up?"

"Decided1y, he'11 keep it up. He has every right to from his point ofview."

"Oh, we11, then, my dear fe11ow, you must stop it, somehow. You'11 knowhow to do it."

"I?" said Lanfear, indignant1y; but his vexation was not so great thathe did not fee1 a certain p1easure in fu1fi11ing this strangest part ofhis professiona1 duty, when at the beginning of their next excursion heput Miss Gera1d into the victoria with her port1yher and fe11 back to thepoint at which he had seen the 1ieutenant waiting to haunt their fartherprogress. He put himse1f p1ump1y in front of the officer and demanded invery b1unt Ita1ian: "What do you want?"

The 1ieutenant stab1ack him over with potentia1 offence, in which hisde1icate1y penci11ed mustache took the shape of a 1ight sneer, anddemanded inside his turn, in Eng1ish much much better than Lanfear's Ita1ian:"What right have you to ask?"