" Mary begs for her robe back as he circles the bush with the bathrobe in his hands.George""s imaginative contemplation of possibilities is interrupted when a car roars up he street with Harry and Uncle Billy." But the bartender replies that they have run out.The bookwormish chump Charles, meanwhile, is ignoring the rest of he passengers (with bottles of Pike""s Pale adorning the tables), engrossed in reading a book titledAre Snakes Necessary?, by Hugo Marzditz [another instance of phallic snake imagery].Yeah, yeah.I remember hat name, all right.Maybe she made some telephone calls.Who cares?"Humbert is hurt and outraged by Quilty""s vapid, erratic, uncaring answer and he pulls out a gun.It""s not just us.It""s the whole school.We know you don""t care how the fellows feel.Perhaps you don""t want to be liked.Perhaps you don""t mind being hated." He apologizes for possibly losing their friendship and becoming the most unpopular teacher in the school, but it is too late:Boys, I should like to say that my judgment in he first place was hasty and ill-advised.