It took a great effort to appear before Hawkesbury next morning as if I
was not aware of his meanness. Now Jack was away, he once again put on
an air of friendliness towards me which was particularly aggravating.
Had he only made himself disagreeable, and given me an opportunity of
venting my wrath, I should have been positively grateful. But to stand
by all day and be simpered to, and even cringed to, was galling in the
extreme.