Why have you quarrelled with the poor Major?
He's a nice enough sort of man, and most people find him easy enough to get on with." "It was he who quarrelled with me.

I had no intention--" "So it was.

I remember that now; something about fishing, wasn't it?
Curious how people will lose their tempers about ridiculous little trifles.

That's the worst of places like this.

The people who have never lived anywhere else become irritable and take offence about nothing, simply because their minds are cut off from wider interests.
You and I, now, know that no fish in the world, however large, is worth fighting about.