Once one has learned the lineaments of a rogue, one needs no further practice
‘The carriage I heard – have they been here again from Les Colombelles?’
‘Aunt Jeanne and Edmund brought my things. And they brought Marie, who has been my maid, to stay with me here.’
‘I do not want any of that lot in this house.’
His voice was weak, but the contempt in it plain. Sarnia said:
‘They have been very good to me, all of them.’
‘Do you say so?’ He stared at her. ‘You may think, since I keep such limited company, that I am likely to be ignorant of the natures of my fellow men. But once one has learned the lineaments of a rogue, one needs no further practice. Even after a half century in solitary confinement, one would know one when one saw one.’
