[The hurt in Dorian's face shifts back to something harder again at that, and he picks his head up.]

Why do you keep assuming that we're the same? We aren't. However many similarities there may be between us, we've still led fundamentally different, individual lives and responded to them differently.

[The suggestion that he might be behaving childishly doesn't anger Dorian as much as the refusal to take a conciliatory step.]

Of course. You couldn't have any fault in any of this. I should have known.