"Nay, but--" He starts to laugh and smacks Feuilly's arm. He is trying to be serious. "Ay, it had a touch of that in it-- but I tell thee, I spoke with him, and other threats he made, all as baseless as this first. And I did tell him-- for at the time it seemed it might be so, and for I little think he minds any law of noble conduct-- that thou and I had parted company. And little cause I see that he should soon learn otherwise."