In short, something extraordinarily stupid and base, which was neither in my character nor in hers.
"I was beside myself.

I accused her of indelicacy.

She made the same accusation against me, and the dispute broke out.

In her words, in the expression of her face, of her eyes, I noticed again the hatred that had so astonished me before.

With a brother, friends, my father, I had occasionally quarrelled, but never had there been between us this fierce spite.