"You know that's nonsense, Burgo. It's downright braggadocio. Men do not fight now; nor at any time would a man be called upon to fight, because you simply wanted to take his wife from him. If you had done it, indeed!"
"How am I to do it? I'd do it to-morrow if it depended on me. No one can say that I'm afraid of anybody or of anything."
"I suppose something in the matter depends on her?"
"I believe she loves me,--if you mean that?"

"You know that's nonsense, Burgo."
"I'd take her tomorrow if I could. No one can say that I'm afraid. And I believe she loves me."
