Now look here.

You are in a raging bad temper this evening, and you tell yourself it's because the Bishop, with my artless aid, has--as you express it--put you in the cart.

Now I am going to prove to you that the true reason is a quite different one.
For why?
Because, though you may not know it, you have been in a raging bad temper ever since this business was broached, three months ago.

Why again?
I have hinted the answer more than once; and now I will put it as a question.

_Had Zimri peace, who slew his Master ?_" "I do not understand." "Oh yes, you do! You are in a raging bad temper, being at heart more decent than any of your silly convictions, because you have wounded for their sake the eminent Christian gentleman now coming towards us along the river-path.