Having for half an hour raged internally at his misfortune, he now sullenly embraced it.

"If I am this sort of an ass, let me be it in the superlative degree," he may be conceived saying bitterly to himself.

He addressed Grizel coldly as "Miss McQueen," a name she had taken by the doctor's wish soon after she went to live with him.
"There is no reason why you should call me that," she said.

"Call me Grizel, as you used to do." "May I ?" replied Tommy, idiotically.

He knew it was idiotic, but that mood now had grip of him.
"But I mean to call you Mr.Sandys," she said decisively.
He was really glad to hear it, for to be called Tommy by anyone was now detestable to him (which is why I always call him Tommy in these pages).