“We can do without your company.”

“I have no wish to interfere with you. All I ask is to be let alone.”

“Keep yourself to yourself!”

“Did I attack you?” asked Hunston.

“No; certainly not.”

“Why, then, did you show hostility by throwing a glass at me directly I made my appearance?”

“We are a family party, and you are no friend of the family,” replied Mole. “Yet what you speak about was an accident entirely.”

“How is that?”

“Monday and I were having a few words.”

“As per usual.”