“You don’t like him—you don’t like her,” said Bernard.
“Those are two very different matters. I am very sorry for Mr. Wright.”
“You need n’t be that. He is doing very well.”
“So you have already informed me. But I am sorry for him, all the same.”
“That does n’t answer my question,” Bernard exclaimed, with a certain irritation. “What part were you playing?”
“What part do you think?”
“Have n’t I told you I gave it up, long ago?”
Angela stood with her back to the fire, looking at him; her hands were locked behind her.
“Did it ever strike you that my position at Baden was a charming one?—knowing that I had been handed over to you to be put under the microscope—like an insect with a pin stuck through it!”
“How in the world did you know it? I thought we were particularly careful.”