“It is his teaching, doubtless?”
“Yes.”
“And he told you that to do to me as you have done was to be pleasing in God’s sight?”
“No; he knows that it was so evil in God’s sight that I shall suffer for it always.”
“But he has done no wrong, so there is no punishment for him?”
“It is true that he has done no wrong, but his punishment will be worse, probably, than mine.”
“YOU DARE TO LOOK ME IN THE FACE!”
“That,” said the earl, scoffing, “is not just.”