“Do you mean what you say?” he asked.
“Yes.”
“You point me out before all these people—”
“One moment, Mr. Delamayn. I admit that I may have been wrong in directing the general attention to you. You have a right to complain of my having answered too publicly the public challenge offered to me by your friends. I apologize for having done that. But I don’t retract a single word of what I have said on the subject of your health.”
“You stick to it that I’m a broken-down man?”
“I do.”
“I wish you were twenty years younger, Sir!”
“Why?”
“I’d ask you to step out on the lawn there and I’d show you whether I’m a broken-down man or not.”
Lady Lundie looked at her brother-in-law. Sir Patrick instantly interfered.