"Don't be insolent," replied Jaffery in a remarkably quiet tone. "You know very well why I'm here."
"Jaff Chayne—" Liosha began.
He waved her off. "Take her away, Hilary."
"Come," said I. "I'll tell you all about it."
"He has got to tell me, not you."
"I certainly don't know why the devil you're here," said Fendihook, with sudden nastiness.
"I've come to save this lady from a dirty blackguard."
"How are you going to do it?"
Jaffery addressed Liosha. "You said in your letter—"
"You wrote to him, you crazy fool, after all my instructions?" snarled Fendihook.