Without delay I began the conversation.
"I have been to look for you," said I, "but was told by Catharine that Pleyel had engaged you on some important and disagreeable affair.

Before his interview with you he spent a few minutes with me.

These minutes he employed in upbraiding me for crimes and intentions with which I am by no means chargeable.

I believe him to have taken up his opinions on very insufficient grounds.

His behaviour was in the highest degree precipitate and unjust, and, until I receive some atonement, I shall treat him, in my turn, with that contempt which he justly merits: meanwhile I am fearful that he has prejudiced my brother against me.
That is an evil which I most anxiously deprecate, and which I shall indeed exert myself to remove.