“May I tell you so a hundred times?”
“Yes.”
“And prove it in every way?”
“I must enquire into your methods before I consent to that, for it is possible that what you would call a very efficacious method might strike me as quite useless.”
“I see you are going to make me sigh after you for a long time.”
“As long as I can.”
“And when you have no strength left?”
“I will surrender. Does that satisfy you?”
“Certainly, but I shall exert all my strength to abate yours.”
“Do so; I shall like it.”