"Against me, perhaps."
"Who knows?"
"Will you speak?"
"What is the use of speaking, since you have guessed it?"
"Then you are still trying to deceive me?"
"I mean to take my precautions, that is all."
"Scoundrel!" the senator exclaimed, with a menacing gesture.
"Nonsense!" the other said, with a shrug of his shoulders; "I am not afraid of you, for you would not dare kill me."
"Why not?"
"In the first place, because it would cause a row, and because I do not think you such a friend of the captain that you would venture to take such a liberty in his house."