"Indeed I think I know myself better than for months past.

I shall say nothing wrong to Captain Le Gaire, and if he is a gentleman he will honor me more for my frankness.

Either you will send him here to me, or else I shall go to him." The major bowed with all the ceremony of the old school, convinced of the utter futility of further argument.
"You will have you own way; you always have," regretfully.

"I shall request the captain to join you here.".