"You had better run away at once," said Wharton.
"Upon my word, I shall begin to think that you're tipsy," said Lopez.
"Tipsy!" said the other.

"How dare you say such a thing to me?
You never in your life saw me in the least altered by any thing I had drunk." Lopez knew that at any rate this was untrue.

"I've seen you as drunk as Cloe before now," said he.
"That's a lie," said Everett Wharton.
"Come, Wharton," said the other, "do not disgrace yourself by conduct such as that.

Something has put you out, and you do not know what you are saying.

I can hardly imagine that you should wish to insult me." "It was you who insulted me.