The bishop hasn't put his embargo on that as well as the hunting, I hope ?" To this Harry made no answer.
"He's in the blues, I think," said Archie.

"Is there anything the matter with him, Harry ?" "Nothing as far as I know." "If I were left at Clavering all the year, with nothing to do, as he is, I think I should drink a good deal of wine," said Sir Hugh.

"I don't know what it is--something in the air, I suppose--but everybody always seems to me to be dreadfully dull here.

You ain't taking any wine either.

Don't stop here out of ceremony, you know, if you want to go after Miss Burton." Harry took him at his word, and went after Miss Burton, leaving the brothers together over their claret.
The two brothers remained drinking their wine, but they drank it in an uncomfortable fashion, not saying much to each other for the first ten minutes after the other Claverings were gone.