"'Go and fetch your master.'
"'But, monsieur, my master ...'
"'Go and fetch your master!'
"'But, monsieur.'
"'I tell you to go and fetch your master!'
"The traveller rose with such imperiousness that the waiter saw there was only one thing for him to do—to obey. He disappeared saying—
"'I am going to fetch him. I am going.'
"'You asked to see me, monsieur,' said the maître de l'hôtel in five minutes' time.
"'Ah! that is all right!'
"'Had I only known monsieur specially wished to speak to me ...'