The House of The Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck Chapter 25 Page 4

“It’s a dangerous game.”

“I have everything to gain.”

“I wish I could stay here with you,” she said. “Have you no friend, no one whom you could trust in this delicate matter?”

“Why, yes — Jack.”

A shadow passed over her face.

“Do you know,” she said, “I have a feeling that you care more for him than for me?”

“Nonsense,” he said, “he is my friend, you, you — immeasurably more.”

“Are you still as intimate with him as when I first met you?”