"Ah! That is all?"
"Yes; but am I mistaken?"
"Perhaps."
"Then, be kind enough to explain yourself categorically, general."
"What use would it be now? It is too late," the general answered, darting at him a glance of strange meaning.
"Why, then, too late?"
Don Sebastian walked quickly up to the count, and stopped in front of him.
"Because now," he said, "we can never understand each other."
"You believe so, general?"
"I am sure of it."