'
Yule flashed a searching glance at her.
'Can you deny that you are on terms of friendship with a--a
person who would at any moment rejoice to injure me?'
'I am friendly with no such person. Will you say whom you are
thinking of?'
'It would be useless. I have no wish to discuss a subject on
which we should only disagree unprofitably.'
Marian kept silence for a moment, then said in a low, unsteady
voice:
'It is perhaps because we never speak of that subject that we are
so far from understanding each other. If you think that Mr
Milvain is your enemy, that he would rejoice to injure you, you
are grievously mistaken.'
'When I see a man in close alliance with my worst enemy, and
looking to that enemy for favour, I am justified in thinking that
he would injure me if the right kind of opportunity offered. One
need not be very deeply read in human nature to have assurance of
that.'
'But I know Mr Milvain!'
'You know him?'
'Far better than you can, I am sure. You draw conclusions from
general principles; but I know that they don't apply in this
case.
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