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Jan had not expected to be placed near Marion, nor was he; but the table was round, and he found that he could watch her without straining his eyes. Joyce Templeton sat at his right hand, Lena at his left.
From the first the latter gave him the cold shoulder, but Joyce's natural curiosity prompted her to talk, and Jan had much ado to fence with her questions or answer them, for they were mostly personal, and some were very nearly impertinent. He had just finished explaining that his acquaintance with the law's correctional asylums was limited to their exterior structural peculiarities, when looking up by chance he encountered Dr. Culgin's eyes. They were bent upon him with an expression of undisguised hostility. The Doctor was seated at Marion's right hand. He smiled maliciously on meeting Jan's glance, and Jan knew that he had been listening to the conversation.