Yes. My immediate inclination is to accept his offer, ransack New York for something I can hurt and take out my fury on it. Nothing that has upset me is Slade's fault. I would only like it to be Wintergreen's fault. They are not appropriate targets.

But he had refused Slade's plea to stay. Here is not a smart place for him, any more than it is for me.

Slade cannot be left alone when he is so distressed.

And the insult stings, as Wintergreen had doubtless intended it to. "If your business is pressing, there is no need to put it off."