He'd have gone on throwing that cock-and-bull story at Lady Loudwater for as long as she continued to stick to him; but it would have stopped at that.

His infernal temper never went any deeper than his lungs.

Lady Loudwater had nothing to fear." "Yet you think that he would have done his best to hound you out of the Army ?" said Mr.Flexen, finding this conception of Lord Loudwater as a harmless, if violent, vapourer somewhat inconsistent.
"That's quite another matter," said Grey quickly.

"It merely meant using his influence behind my back with some scurvy politician.

There wouldn't have been any publicity attached to that, any exposure of his bullying.
He'd have done that all right." "I should have thought that a man of Lord Loudwater's violent temper would rather have sought an open row," Mr.Flexen persisted.
"Of course--if he'd been really violent.