Indeed there might be a question whether in the morning his own injury would not be the most severe.

But the immediate effect on the flustered and despoiled unfortunate one had been great enough to justify Lopez in taking strong steps if strong steps could in any way benefit himself.

Would it be best to publish this affair on the house-tops, or to bury it in the shade, as nearly as it might be buried?
He had determined in his own mind that his friend certainly had been tipsy.

In no other way could his conduct be understood.

And a row with a tipsy man at midnight in the park is not, at first sight, creditable.