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When one is not accustomed to experiencing emotions, it can be quite difficult to distinguish between them. Confronted for the first time with, say, love, it is understandable that it might be mistaken for annoyance. If a man has carefully avoided all feeling for nearly a decade, he might even mistake it for dislike.
In which we learn what came before, what happened after, and how Alexander just managed to keep his wits in the middle. The familiar story, with Mr. Alexander Colbourne given rather more opportunity to explain himself than he might have preferred.