You are out of your own control.

Sit down, please, and be silent for a minute.

Then tell me calmly what is the matter." Morris sat down as he was told, but the calmness was not conspicuous.
"Calm ?" he said.

"Would you be calm in my circumstances, do you think ?" "You have not yet told me what they are," said Mr.Taynton.
"I've just seen Madge Templeton," he said.

"I met her privately by appointment.