`` my good sir , '' i say , as if we have been passing conversation of the most pleasant sort , `` do you realize that if i had received you on any of my ships-and i do own two , you know ; four hundred and fifty tons ' displacement , combined , by the way-that i would have given you refreshment and bade you to sit down and make yourself comfortable , rather than make you stand trembling like a disobedient schoolgirl , as you now force me to do ? ''