You are quite impossible.
PIKE
The fact is, when she took him he was a poor man; but if he'd a had seven hundred and [pg 080] fifty thousand dollars, I'll bet he'd 'a' given it for her.
[Starts to hammer vigorously, humming "Dolly Gray.">[
HORACE
There is no profit in continuing the discussion.
[Turns on his heel, but immediately turns again toward PIKE, who is apparently preoccupied.]
And I warn you we shall act without paying the slightest attention to you.
[Triumphantly.]
What have you to say to that, sir?