Of course they had known all this before, but somehow it had never seemed so objectionable as it did now, and as Easton thought of it he was filled an unreasonable resentment against Slyme, as if the latter had forced himself upon them against their will.
'Damn him!' he thought.

'I wish I'd never brought him here at all!' Ruth did not appear to him to be very happy about it either.
'Well ?' he said at last.

'What do you think of him ?' 'Oh, he'll be all right, I suppose.' 'For my part, I wish he wasn't coming,' Easton continued.
'That's just what I was thinking,' replied Ruth dejectedly.

'I don't like him at all.

I seemed to turn against him directly he came in the door.' 'I've a good mind to back out of it, somehow, tomorrow,' exclaimed Easton after another silence.