I rarely drink in the middle of the day.

Almost never, I swear to you.

Confound it, why should you say I've been drinking?
Can't I be serious without being accused of drunkenness?
What the devil do you mean, Anne, by intimating that I--" "Don't explode, Simmy," she cried.

"I wasn't intimating a thing.

I was positively asserting it.