“Ah! that is what you feared! It was inevitable, you say! Well, let me tell you that if I hate anyone here I hate you all,” he cried, in a hoarse, strained voice “but you, you, with your jesuitical soul, your soul of sickly sweetness, idiot, beneficent millionaire I hate you worse than anything or anyone on earth! I saw through you and hated you long ago; from the day I first heard of you. I hated you with my whole heart. You have contrived all this! You have driven me into this state!