“Go and drink some cold water to cool it.”
“Bah! You’ll never make a good outspoken Englishman, Frank.”
“Perhaps not. I shall never make a quarrelsome one,” said Frank quietly.
“What! Oh, I like that! Why, you’re the most quarrelsome fellow I ever met. I wonder we haven’t had our affair in the Park before now. If it hadn’t been for my forbearance we should.”
Frank stared at his companion in astonishment, for it was quite evident that he was speaking sincerely.
“Come along,” said Andrew.
“Where?”
“Out in the Park, where we can breathe the fresh air. I feel stifled in these close rooms, breathing the air of a corrupt court.”
“No, thank you,” said Frank.
“What? You won’t come?”