I thought you had some confidence in my judgment, but it turned out that you had not.
If Bathurst had been killed when he was standing up, a target for the Sepoys, I should have held you morally responsible for his death." "You would have shared the responsibility, anyhow, Doctor, for it was you who repeated my words to him." "We will not go over that ground again," said the Doctor quietly.

"I gave you my reasons for doing so, and those reasons are to my mind convincing.

Now I will tell you how this constitutional nervousness on his part arose.

He told me the story; but as at that time there had been no occasion for him to show whether he was brave or otherwise, I considered my lips sealed.

Now that his weakness has been exhibited, I consider myself more than justified in explaining its origin." And he then repeated the story Bathurst had told him.
"You see," he said, when he had finished, "it is a constitutional matter beyond his control; it is a sort of antipathy.