"Why should Radford Leicester love her, my friend? Tell me that."
"Perhaps because he cannot help it."
"No; he hates her because he cannot help it."
"Hate her!"
"If there is one thing the East teaches a man, it is how to hate well. He has learnt his lesson. Great God, he has learnt it well!"
"And why have you come back?"
"Why should Radford Leicester come back, Winfield? Tell me that. Think out the whole case quietly. Why should he come back? That Bible of yours is full of human nature. Those old Jews realised the elemental passions of life—an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. That appeals to a man as just."
"But—but, I say——"
"Yes, tell me."
"Think of what it means. It is not right."