Tax him with it. He did not think, forsooth! Tell him nogentleman would do such a thing, thinkingly or not; that you certainlywill not stand it again. Say you will show him. He will presently argueor contradict. So to your climax.Then, again, there is the personal reference. "Meaning me, sir?" Yourvictim with a blithe heart babbles of this or that.
(Thischange was still so recent that he mentions an encounter in Rome withan 'Oxford don' who 'spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifestdiscomfort... read more
