“Oh, yes you will,� said Luftdon. “The advice he gives is good. We have nothing more to do here.�
“No,� said I bitterly, “you have done about all that you can. The man is dead but the woman’s heart will not be broke because of you. Now go.�
“If I had a weapon,� said Arcester slowly, shooting at me a baleful and envenomed glance, “I believe I would even send one of his faithful retainers to accompany Sir Geoffrey.�
I never saw a man who was more furiously angry, baffled, humiliated than he. As for me, I was glad of his rage. If I had known any way to make him more angry and humiliated I confess I would have followed it.
“Don’t be a fool, Arcester,� said the other; “you’ve got everything you wanted in this game and ’tis only just that you should pay a little for it. What’s your name, my man?�
“Never mind what it is.�
“Are you ashamed of it?�
“Hampdon!�
“Master Hampdon, you may not be a gentleman,� said Luftdon, “but by gad, you are a man, and here’s my hand on ’t.�
He had played a man’s part, so I clasped it.