"You will strike me if I do not apologize?"
"You may bet your life that I will, colonel."
"Then I—ah—I'll have to apologize, sah."
"And this settles the entire affair between us?"
"Eh—I don't know about that."
"Well, you had better know. Does this settle the entire affair?"
"I suppose so, sah."
"You apologize most humbly?"
"I do."
"And you state of your own free will that this settles all trouble between us?"