"This isn't the peninsula," Childermass points out. He isn't going to be particularly cruel about it — certainly not telling him to shut up about it — but he isn't going to be kind, either. He's going to be stern, which he does well. "You took a stupid chance. Standing out in the open, doing magic? A bullet is faster than a spell, Mr. Strange. You should already know that."

Seeing how he was in the peninsula and all.