When at last this happened, he addressed himself quietly to Lord Julian, as if Colonel Bishop had not spoken.
"Your lordship was about to say ?" he asked, with challenging smoothness.
But his lordship had by now recovered his habitual composure, and was again disposed to be conciliatory.

He laughed and shrugged.
"Faith! here's a deal of unnecessary heat," said he.

"And God knows this plaguey climate provides enough of that.

Perhaps, Colonel Bishop, you are a little uncompromising; and you, sir, are certainly a deal too peppery.

I have said, speaking on behalf of my Lord Sunderland, that I am content to await the result of your experiment." But Bishop's fury had by now reached a stage in which it was not to be restrained.
"Are you, indeed ?" he roared.