"You deserve punishment for your rudeness, so I refuse to grant it. As a penance for your offense I shall expect you to remain where you are during this entire act and devote your energies to amusing me."
"I suppose I must submit, but please talk to me, as I am not bold and feel sure that your friend is a musical fiend who is quite prepared to cast furious glances at me should I be audacious enough to speak above a whisper."
"Rather more of a synthesist, I imagine. I collect what both enemies and friends say of an individual and then build his character from those materials."
"How horrible! I trust you will never try your method on me."
"I mean that I have heard considerable about you in New York, and that I dined with six men at the City Club this evening. You were the one person in Chicago I was most desirous of meeting, so I managed to collect some most useful materials from which I have built my estimate of your character."
"I must call that the boldest piece of assurance I ever heard of."
"Why any more so than for me to judge you by my own impressions? My method is more judicial. As in a court of law, I hear both sides of a case, and do not permit myself to be biased by personal charms."
"You are a clever pleader. I feel tempted to throw myself on the mercy of the court and receive its verdict."
"Before the verdict can be given the court must be cleared of reporters; as that seems impracticable, sentence must be deferred."
"Is it then so horrible? If so, I shall feel tempted to 'jump bail'."
"I think you have nothing to fear; but how did you acquire such a knowledge of the law?"
"At one time I had a passion for reading accounts of trials, and I even went with a party to see the Anarchists when they were on trial."
"If it is so considered, I humbly ask pardon, and meanwhile I move that the court take a recess which shall be employed in instructing me in the intricacies of Chicago society."
"I see you want more material with which to construct characters; if so, we had far better listen to the opera."
"O, bother the opera! It is vulgar to listen to an opera; it shows a lack of conversational powers. Don't you think so?"
"One can easily see that you came from New York, and, like all New York men, I suppose you expect to be pampered."