Serve me right.

I'll go and wash my hands.

Really, I shall never forgive myself! No wonder his lordship was angry." "Was he ?" said Celia, absently.

"Yes; he was.

But you must remember Lord Heyton is very much upset; when one's nerves are on the rack, the least thing, trifling though it may be----" "Quite so; quite so," said Mr.Jacobs, with a nod of comprehension.
He was still so much upset by the accident, that he forgot to wash his hands and went straight to his sitting-room, still carrying the two sheets of paper, the evidences of his inexcusable clumsiness..