Matters had gone too far for that.

He followed Seton almost at once and found him in a quiet corner, smoking.

Merefleet sat down beside him and also began to smoke.

There was a touch of hostility about Seton that he was determined to ignore.
"Well," said Seton at length, with characteristic bluntness, "so you have done it in spite of my warning the other night." Merefleet looked at him.

Was he expected to render an account of his doings to this man who was at least ten years his junior, he wondered, with faint amusement?
Seton went on with strong indignation.
"I told you in the first place not to be too intimate with her.