Do you think I'm going to make peace with him for that ?" "Oh, Piers!" she exclaimed in distress.
It was out before she could check it--that involuntary use of his Christian name for which it seemed to her afterwards he had been deliberately lying in wait.
He did not take immediate advantage of her slip, but she knew that he noticed it, registered it as it were for future reference.
"No," he said moodily, after a pause.

"I don't think the debt is on my side this time.

He had the satisfaction of flogging me with the whole Hunt looking on." There was sullen resentment in his tone, and then very suddenly to Avery's amazement he began to laugh.

"It was worth it anyway, so we won't cavil about the price.

How much longer are you going to bottle up that unfortunate brute?
Don't you think it's time he went home to his wife ?" Avery moved away from the shutter against which she had stood so long.