“Let’s not discuss it. What’s the use? But I feel that you are arbitrary to an extreme.”
“If she knew of our discussion, the young thing couldn’t complain, because if she has had a systematic detractor in me, she has found an enthusiastic defender in you.”
“Yes, dear man; it is only at such long intervals that I see a person with ingenuousness and enthusiasm, that when I do meet one, I get a real joy from it.”
“You are a sentimentalist.”
“That’s true; and you have become an inquisitor.”
“Most certainly. I believe we agree on that and on all the rest.”
“I think so. All right. Good-bye!” said Alzugaray, ill-humouredly.
“Salutations!” replied Cæsar.