"Don't you know what is best for you?"
"Perhaps I do."
"You act as if you didn't."
"I'll chance it."
"You shan't have a mouthful to eat or to drink until you promise to tell me all you know."
"Then I'll starve," said Bob, promptly.
Joseph Farvel had not looked for so much grit in the youth, and now he was completely nonplussed.
"You don't mean what you say."
"Try me and see."
"Have your friends located that tablet?"