"I ask for nothing more.

The man who's capable of annoying the poor old rector, who has chronic bronchitis and must keep the church up to a pretty fair temperature--" "What Simpkins said was that the church wasn't hot enough." "It's all the same," said Meldon.

"The point is that he worried the rector, who's not physically strong enough to bear it, and who certainly does not deserve it.

I didn't mind his attacking you or Doyle.

You can both hit back, and if you were any good would have hit back long ago in a way which Simpkins would have disliked intensely.
But a clergyman is different.