I disliked feeling indebted to you.” And then: “You had far less reason to help me than I did to help you.” “That’s certainly true.” “You don’t prettify what you think, do you?” said Laurent, still frowning. “A more artful man would. An artful man would have stayed put and won advantage by fostering the sense of obligation and guilt in his master.” “I didn’t realise you had a sense of guilt,” said Damen, bluntly.
