You have a right to complain of my having answered too publicly the public challenge offered to me by your friends.

I apologize for having done that.

But I don't retract a single word of what I have said on the subject of your health." "You stick to it that I'm a broken-down man ?" "I do." "I wish you were twenty years younger, Sir!" "Why ?" "I'd ask you to step out on the lawn there and I'd show you whether I'm a broken-down man or not." Lady Lundie looked at her brother-in-law.

Sir Patrick instantly interfered.
"Mr.Delamayn," he said, "you were invited here in the character of a gentleman, and you are a guest in a lady's house." "No! no!" said the surgeon, good humoredly.

"Mr.Delamayn is using a strong argument, Sir Patrick--and that is all.