I hope I didn't make too much of an ass of myself before the others, going off like a girl in that way.

You must have had no end of a bother in dragging me upstairs--very good of you to take the trouble." He smiled faintly, and produced a cigarette case.
"How do you feel now ?" asked Sir Henry Durwood solemnly, disregarding the proffered case.
"A bit as though I'd been kicked on the top of the head by a horse, but it'll soon pass off.

Fact is, I got a touch of sun when I was out there"-- he waved his hand vaguely towards the East--"and it gives me a bit of trouble at times.

But I'll be all right directly.

I'm sorry to have given you so much trouble." He proffered this explanation with an easy courtesy, accompanied by a slight deprecating smile which admirably conveyed the regret of a well-bred man for having given trouble to strangers.