"Yes, and what am I to do while Stephen is listening to Denis?"
"You might finish the drawing which your father asked for this morning, and which, as you said, you had not time to complete."
"Indeed I shall not, it is too tiresome; and if anything more is said about it, I will tear it to pieces."
"Surely not, you are not silly enough to do that."
"And why then should I be silly to tear this drawing? It is my own, I hope."
"A fine reason truly! The château yonder is mine also. What would you say if I were to burn it down?"
"There is no resemblance in the two cases."
"In fact, I should be a madman, and you merely a child."
"A child! Do you know that I am fifteen?"
"So they say, but I cannot believe it."