A very chance connection, too insignificant in your eyes to deserve your regard. The articles are by me!
IDA.
Heavens!
OLDENDORF (vehemently).
By you? Articles in the paper of this gentleman?
IDA (entreating him).
Edward!
OLDENDORF (more calmly).
The Union has attacked not you but an unknown person, who to us was merely a partisan of this gentleman. You would have spared us both this painful scene had you not concealed from me the fact that you are a correspondent of the Coriolanus.