The man should have had better sense.

Then, too, Sheldon was personally aggrieved.

He had been filched of something that he felt was almost his, and his lover's jealousy was rampant at thought of this forced familiarity.
It was while in this mood that the screen door banged loudly behind the heels of Tudor, who strode into the room and paused before him.

Sheldon was unprepared, though it was very apparent that the other was furious.
"Well ?" Tudor demanded defiantly.
And on the instant speech rushed to Sheldon's lips.
"I hope you won't attempt anything like it again, that's all--except that I shall be only too happy any time to extend to you the courtesy of my whale-boat.

It will land you in Tulagi in a few hours." "As if that would settle it," was the retort.
"I don't understand," Sheldon said simply.
"Then it is because you don't wish to understand." "Still I don't understand," Sheldon said in steady, level tones.