Probably it was the result of his meditations upon it, that he never after carried complaints to Murdoch Malison.
Alec Forbes had nothing to do with this revenge.

But Bruce always thought he was at the bottom of it, and hated him the more.

He disliked all _loons_ but his own; for was not the spirit of _loons_ the very antipodes to that of money-making?
But Alec Forbes he hated, for he was the very antipode to Robert Bruce himself.

Mrs Bruce always followed her husband's lead, being capable only of two devotions--the one to her husband and children, the other to the shop .-- Of Annie they highly and righteously disapproved, partly because they had to feed her, and partly because she was friendly with Alec.

This disapproval rose into dislike after their sons had told them that it was because Juno had bitten her that the boys of the school, with Alec for a leader, had served her as they had.