SECRETARY.
You know why!
LEONARD.
By God, no!
SECRETARY.
No matter—it will occur to you all right when you are dying!
LEONARD.
I have no idea—
SECRETARY.
Bethink yourself! Otherwise I might take you for a mad dog that has unwittingly bitten the one I love most on earth, and shoot you down as such! But for half an hour more I must let you pass as my equal!