Their appearance no longer pleased him.
"It's your own fault entirely," said the Terror coldly.

"If you'd been civil and answered our letter, even refusing, we shouldn't have bothered about you.

But you didn't take any notice of it--" "And it was beastly cheek," said Erebus.
"You couldn't expect us to stand that kind of thing.

So we kept an eye on you and caught you poaching," said the Terror.
"Without any excuse for it.

You've plenty of fishing of your own," said Erebus severely.
"And if I don't give you leave to fish my water, you're going to sneak to the police, are you ?" said Sir James in a tone of angry disgust.
The Terror flushed and with a very cold dignity said: "We aren't going to do anything of the kind; and we don't want any leave to fish your water at all.