His warm-hearted and impulsive nature made him at once profoundly ashamed of himself.

He stood up, a tall, martial figure, and his ruggedly handsome, shaven countenance reddened under its tan.

He held out a hand to Tremayne.
"My dear boy, I beg your pardon.

It's so utterly annoyed I am that the savage in me will be breaking out.

Sure, it isn't as if it were only this affair of Dick's.