‘I am sorry to hear you say that.’

‘Am I not justified in saying it?’

’I hope not.  When I first saw you I told you everything.  If I have been wrong in attending to your wishes since, I regret it.’

’This comes from your seeing your master for two minutes on the beach.  You are acting now under his orders.  No doubt he came with the purpose.  Had you told him you were to be here?’

‘His coming was an accident.’

’It was very opportune at any rate.  Well;—­what have you to say to me?  Or am I to understand that you suppose yourself to have said all that is required of you?  Perhaps you would prefer that I should argue the matter out with...