Sir Patrick was alone at the book-shelves immersed in a volume which he had just taken down.
"Make an apology," suggested Arnold.

"Sir Patrick may be a little irritable and bitter; but he's a just man and a kind man.

Say you were not guilty of any intentional disrespect toward him--and you will say enough." "All right!" Sir Patrick, deep in an old Venetian edition of The Decameron, found himself suddenly recalled from medieval Italy to modern England, by no less a person than Geoffrey Delamayn.
"What do you want ?" he asked, coldly.
"I want to make an apology," said Geoffrey.

"Let by-gones be by-gones--and that sort of thing.

I wasn't guilty of any intentional disrespect toward you.