He very honestly and in all truth disclaimed any sympathy with Dorothy's conduct, and offered, as the only reparation he could make, to punish her in some way befitting the offence.

Then he conducted the guests to the mounting block near the entrance tower and saw them depart.

Dorothy had solved her father's dilemma with a vengeance.
Sir George was not sure that he wanted to be angry at Dorothy, though he felt it was a duty he owed to himself and to the Stanleys.

He had wished that the girl would in some manner defer the signing of the contract, but he had not wanted her to refuse young Stanley's hand in a manner so insulting that the match would be broken off altogether.
As the day progressed, and as Sir George pondered over Dorothy's conduct, he grew more inclined to anger; but during the afternoon she kept well under the queen's wing, and he found no opportunity to give vent to his ill-temper.
Late that night he called me to his room.

He had been drinking during the evening and was poised between good-humored hilarity and ill-tempered ferocity.