Roke glowered hideously at the smiling Gavin.

Brice could feel no compunction for his own behavior.

For he remembered the hurled knife and the brutal kicking of the dog.

Yet he repented him of the hand-twisting trick.

For if he and Roke were expected to work together as Milo had said, he had certainly made a most unfortunate beginning to their acquaintanceship, and just now he had added new and painful aggravation to his earlier offense.
Milo was surveying the sufferer with no great pity, as Roke bent over his hurt wrist.
"Too bad!" commented Standish.