Well?
LOTH
But I thought I had explained that I must stay here for a specific purpose.
HOFFMANN
[In extreme consternation and thoroughly indignant at once.] Look here!… That comes near being caddish!—Don't you know what you owe me as your friend?
LOTH
Not, I hope, the betrayal of my cause!
HOFFMANN
[Beside himself.] Well then—in that case—I haven't the slightest motive for treating you as a friend. And so I tell you that I consider your appearance and demeanour here—to put it mildly—incredibly impudent.