"What are you making yourself so conspicuously unpleasant for?
It's time you pulled up." Tommy turned crimson.

"I ?" he stammered.

"Who says so?
Stella ?" There was the suspicion of a smile about Monck's grim mouth as he made reply.

"No; not Stella, though she well might.

I've heard you being beastly rude to her more than once.