“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.”