The captain was smiling, wistfully, tolerantly, confidently, almost scornfully.

Had he been guilty of the thing imputed he could not have stood so in her presence.
"O'Moy," he said slowly, "I should tell you that you have played the knave in this were it not clear to me that you have played the fool." He spoke entirely without passion.

He saw his way quite clearly.

Things had reached a pass in which for the sake of all concerned, and perhaps for the sake of Miss Armytage more than any one, the whole truth must be spoken without regard to its consequences to Richard Butler.
"You dare to take that tone ?" began O'Moy in a voice of thunder.
"Yourself shall be the first to justify it presently.

I should be angry with you, O'Moy, for what you have done.