Say, how does it strike you ?" I still made the best of a bad case.
"Something has upset his temper," I said.

"The merest trifle, Miss Colebrook, upsets a man's temper sometimes.

I speak as a man, and I know it.

Give him time, and he will make his excuses, and all will be well again." My presentation of the case entirely failed to re-assure my pretty companion.

We went back to the house.