Terribly irritating, too; I felt excessively angry.

I really--dear me, Mr Herrick, I'm afraid I spoke very unjustly to you, and--I--ought a captain to apologise to a midshipman ?" "I really don't know, sir," I said, feeling quite mollified by his tone.
"Well, I think I do," he said, smiling.

"Decidedly not.

As Mr Reardon would say, it would be totally subversive of discipline.

It couldn't be done.