But he wasn't, I tell you.

He was only a blustering bully where women and servants were concerned--people he could cow.

I tell you, I made it quite clear that he crumpled up directly you stood up to him.

Why, hang it all! Any man with the soul of a mouse who really believed that I had been making love to his wife, couldn't have taken the things I told him without going for me at any risk.

And as I'm still rather crocked up, and he knew it, there must have seemed precious little risk about it.