‘Indeed they are,’ said Stephen. ‘I was astonished, when first I went to London, to find that a man might not go out from one year’s end to the other.’ ‘Yes,’ said James. ‘Ideas upon matters of honour are altogether different in the two kingdoms. Before now I have given Englishmen provocation that would necessarily have called for a meeting in Ireland, with no result. We should call that remarkably timid; or is shy the word?’
