What I can't quite understand, old chap, is why you have worked yourself up into such a shocking state.

You don't stand any chance of being hanged, that I can see!" Wrayson laughed a little shamefacedly.
"To tell you the truth," he said, "I am beginning to feel ashamed of myself.

I think it was the sense of being spied upon, and being alone--in this room--which got a bit on my nerves.

I feel a different man since you came down." The Colonel nodded cheerfully.
"That's all right," he declared.

"The next thing to--" The Colonel broke off in the midst of his sentence.