She insisted on being understood.

"Say no more!" she warned him, in a tone of command.
The brute side of his nature, roused by Mountjoy's contemptuous composure, was forcing its way outwards; he set his wife at defiance.
"Then don't let him look at me as if he thought I was in a state of intoxication!" cried the furious doctor.

"There's the man, Miss, who tried to make me tipsy," he went on, actually addressing himself to Iris.

"Thanks to my habits of sobriety, he has been caught in his own trap.

_He's_ intoxicated.