“For talking of you as I did.’
“Which you justified as the custom of society!”
“I confess, then, that in your case I ought not to have done so.”
“Then I forgive you; and we part in peace.”
“Is that what you call forgiveness?”
“Is it not all that is required? Knowing now your true feeling toward me, I know that in this house I am a mistake. Nothing like a true relation exists, nothing more than the merest acquaintance can exist between us!”
“It is terrible to have such an enemy!”
“I do not understand you!”
“The match is not fair! Here stands poor me undefended, chained to the rock! There you lurk, behind the hedge, invisible, and taking every advantage! Do you think it fair?”
“I begin to understand! The objection did not seem to strike you while I was the person shot at! But still I fail to see your object. Please explain.”