I was in clover, luxuriously comfortable.

You've allotted me a fascinating room and perfect dream of a bed.

I feel an ungrateful wretch for so much as mentioning this matter to you after the way in which you have indulged me.

Only something rather extraordinary really did happen, of which I honestly confess I am still expiring to find a reasonable and not too humiliating explanation.

For, though I blush to own it"-- He laughed softly, humping up his shoulders after the manner of a naughty small boy dodging a well-merited box on the ear .-- "Yes, I blush to own it, but I was frightened, downright frightened.