As if," he spoke with heat, "Stella weren't as good as the best of 'em--and better! What right have they to treat her like a social outcast just because she came out here to me on her own?
It's hateful! It's iniquitous! What else could she have done ?" "It seems reasonable--from a man's point of view," said Monck.
"It was reasonable.

It was the only thing possible.

And just for that they chose to turn the cold shoulder on her,--to ostracize her practically.

What had she done to them?
What right had they to treat her like that ?" Fierce resentment sounded in Tommy's voice.
"I'll tell you if you want to know," said Monck abruptly.

"It's the law of the pack to rend an outsider.