But if I were you, my lord, and you, my lady, I should not insist.

Believe me, you'll cut poor figures.

As for you, my lord, ye're in none such good odor, as it is." "Let that be," snarled his lordship.
"If I mention it at all, I but do so in your lordship's own interests.
It will be remembered that ye attempted to murder me once, and that will not be of any great help to such accusations as you may bring against me.

Besides which, there is the unfortunate circumstance that it's widely known ye're not a man to be believed." "Will you be silent ?" roared his lordship, in a towering passion.
"If I trouble myself to speak at all, it is out of concern for your lordship," Mr.Caryll insisted sweetly.

"And in your own interest, and your ladyship's, too, I'd counsel you to hear me a moment without witnesses." His tone was calculatedly grave.