"You are, indeed, an ingenious casuist, and I wish to know how you can prove the correctness of your assertion."
"Can you afford to lose your temper?"
"If I do lose it I can easily recover it again."
"You may, Sir, but can others?"
"If they cannot, they are to blame."
"Then, Sir, this game of innocence is found on experiment, first, to destroy the placidity of the temper, and then to involve its abettors in censure. But there is often more staked in this game than the loss of temper."
"What is there, Madam?"
"The loss of friendship. You know that the families of the Orrs and the Humes have never met in any party since the quarrel which took place two years since at Brushwood House."
"Why, that was a very serious affair, certainly, but you know that such quarrels rarely happen."