"Why not go to him at once without any letter?"
"Because he will thus learn, in the most dramatic way possible, the name and the social position of his real father."
"Dick, you make this a personal matter."
"Yes, I do." He became suddenly vindictive. "The scoundrel wanted Molly to marry him secretly, and live secretly with him—you understand that—while he was making love to Hilarie Woodroffe."
"It is steep, certainly steep. But perhaps he did not mean——"
"Doctor, you know the kind of men they are—this Johnnie and his friends. They have no honour, as they have no heart; they are rotten through and through—rotten and corrupt."
"Dick, there are others to be considered."
"I will make the whole story public—I will write a play on it."
"Is this revenge or justice, Dick?"
"I don't care which. Revenge is wild justice."