“Of course I did not.”
Mr. Graeme held his peace. For the first time he doubted Donal’s word.
“But I wanted to have a little talk with you,” resumed Donal. “I want to know whether you think your duty all to the owner of the land, or in any measure to the tenants also.”
“That is easy to answer: one employed by the landlord can owe the tenant nothing.”
It was not just the answer he would have given to another questioner.
“Do you not owe him justice?” asked Donal.
“Every legal advantage I ought to take for my employer.”
“Even to the grinding of the faces of the poor?”
“I have nothing to do, as his employé, with my own ideas as to what may be equitable.”
He drew the line thus hard in pure opposition to Donal.