And I don't hate you at all.

You can see that I don't.

I didn't even hate you when you came as an enemy." "Ah!" said I."What made you think that?
We agreed to argue it out, if you remember." She drew out of a case beside her one of her unspeakable cigarettes.

"Do you suppose," she said, lighting it, and pausing to inhale the first two or three puffs of smoke, "do you suppose that a woman who has lived among wild beasts hasn't got instinct ?" I drew my chair nearer to the fire.

She was beginning to be uncanny again.
"I expected you were going to be horrified at the dreadful creature your friend had taken up with.