"No, thanks," said Phil, icily; "but, if you've no objection, I'd like to close your door. May I?"
"By all means."
"My opinion of you, Acton——"
"Why trouble about that, Bourne; I know it.".
——"is that you're an unmitigated cad."
"Gently, friend, gently," said Acton, half getting up.
"You, by your foul play, have disfigured poor Aspinall for life——"
"Bourne, you're a monomaniac on that subject. I've had the pleasure of telling you once before that you were a liar."
"And you did not get your 'footer' cap for it, which seems such a paltry punishment for so villainous a crime."
"That is stale, stale," said Acton, coolly.