"I am ashamed to say that the heat has rendered me a trifle indolent".
When I came softly back five minutes later, he lay in deep slumber, his face cherubically innocent, his breathing soft as a babe's.

He awoke freshly two hours later.

He apologized for his rudeness and expressed a wish for a glass of cool water.

Three of these he drank with evidences of profound relish.

Then he drew his large silver watch from his pocket.
"On my word, Major, it's after six, and I shall be late for tea! I have trespassed shamefully upon you!" "The heat was very trying," I said.
"Quite enervating, indeed! I seem only now to be feeling its effects." As he walked briskly down the now cooling street, he bared his brow to the gentle breeze of evening.
To the ladies, solicitous about Miss Caroline, who called upon him a few days later, he said, "She is a most admirable and lovely woman--not at all a person one could bring one's self to address on the painful subject of intoxicants.