"But, are you?"
"Is it your business, Lord Lumley?"
"Yes!"
"Then if you make everybody's love affairs your concern, you must find plenty to interest you."
"There is only one person in the world in whose love affairs I am interested."
"Naturally!" I answered. "Whose else should be so interesting as your own?"
"I did not mean that!" he exclaimed, almost angrily. "You are bandying words with me."
"On the contrary, it is you who seem bent on mystifying me," I answered, laughing.
"You shall hear me speak more plainly then."
"I would rather not. Enigmas are so much more interesting. Will you allow me to pass?"