'Obey them.' He spat on the floor, but at the same time he grew calmer.
'You are right there,' he answered spitefully.

'What matter, after all, since you leave to-morrow at six?
Your horse has been sent down, and your baggage is above.' 'I will go to it,' I retorted.

'I want none of your company.

Give me a light, fellow!' He obeyed reluctantly, and, glad to turn my back on him, I went up the ladder, still wondering faintly, in the midst of my annoyance, what his wife was about that my chance detection of her had so enraged him.

Even now he was not quite himself.