Roderick leaned his elbows on his knees, clasped his hands together, and crossed them, shadewise, over his eyes. In this attitude, for a moment, he sat looking coldly at his friend. “So I have made you very uncomfortable?” he went on.
“Extremely so.”
“I have been eager, grasping, obstinate, vain, ungrateful, indifferent, cruel?”
“I have accused you, mentally, of all these things, with the exception of vanity.”
“You have often hated me?”
“Never. I should have parted company with you before coming to that.”
“But you have wanted to part company, to bid me go my way and be hanged!”
“Repeatedly. Then I have had patience and forgiven you.”
“Forgiven me, eh? Suffering all the while?”
“Yes, you may call it suffering.”