I can realize something of what you have been through.

But your desertion of my mother and me was a brutality.

What you call your creed of life sounds to me hideous.
You and I are far apart, and so far as I am concerned, God grant that we may remain so." For the first time Lord Arranmore smiled.

He poured out with steady hand yet another glass of wine, and he nodded towards the door.
"I am obliged to you," he said, "for your candour.

I have met with enough hypocrisy in life to be able to appreciate it.