Subordination
Major (narrating):—“But when, on the thirteenth of October, the battle of Leipzig was fought——”
Lieutenant:—“Excuse me, Major; that was on the eighteenth.”
Major:—“Young man, do you think you know it better than I? I tell you it was on the thirteenth.”
Lieutenant:—“I do know it was not, for only lately I read the history of the battle by a famous historian.”
Major:—“Don’t talk to me about any of your scribblers. I—your Major—tell you it was on the thirteenth.”
Lieutenant:—“Pardon me, Major, if I doubt it in spite of that.”
Major (boiling with rage):—“Very well, Lieutenant, then I tell you officially, that it was on the thirteenth.”
Lieutenant:—“Very well, Major, then it was on the thirteenth.”