He is a bad man, and I would just say a word to her, if I were you, to make her understand that his coming to her of a morning is not desirable.

Upon my word, I believe there is nothing he likes so much as going about and making mischief between men and their wives." Thus she delivered herself; and Louis Trevelyan, though he was sore and angry, could not but feel that she had taken the part of a friend.

All that she had said had been true; all that she had said to him he had said to himself more than once.

He too hated the man.
He believed him to be a snake in the grass.

But it was intolerably bitter to him that he should be warned about his wife's conduct by any living human being; that he, to whom the world had been so full of good fortune,--that he, who had in truth taught himself to think that he deserved so much good fortune, should be made the subject of care on behalf of his friend, because of danger between himself and his wife! On the spur of the moment he did not know what answer to make.