"Well, if you don't want to take it on yourself, I'll do it, although it concerns me less assuredly than it does you."
"So then you are in love with Charlotte?"
"I? No—but I see clearly through this blackguard's game."
"My dear fellow, you are mixing yourself up in matters of a delicate nature, and—unless you are in love with Charlotte——"
"No—I am not in love with her—but I am hunting down imposters, that's what I mean!"
"May I ask what you intend to do?"
"To thrash this beggar."
"Good! the best way to make her fall in love with him. You fight with him, and whether he wounds you, or you wound him, he will become a hero in her eyes."
"What would you do then?"
"In your place?"