For the moment...." "You were carried away by your heat in defence of this...

sea-robber." Miss Bishop's scorn was almost fierce.
His lordship stared at her again.

Then he half-closed his large, pale eyes, and tilted his head a little.

"I wonder why you hate him so," he said softly.
He saw the sudden scarlet flame upon her cheeks, the heavy frown that descended upon her brow.

He had made her very angry, he judged.