diff --git a/src/_pytest/_code/code.py b/src/_pytest/_code/code.py
index e7a01530a..996866c04 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/_code/code.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/_code/code.py
@@ -1041,28 +1041,35 @@ class ReprEntry(TerminalRepr):
         character, as doing so might break line continuations.
         """
 
-        indent_size = 4
-
-        def is_fail(line):
-            return line.startswith("{}   ".format(FormattedExcinfo.fail_marker))
-
         if not self.lines:
             return
 
         # separate indents and source lines that are not failures: we want to
         # highlight the code but not the indentation, which may contain markers
         # such as ">   assert 0"
+        fail_marker = "{}   ".format(FormattedExcinfo.fail_marker)
+        indent_size = len(fail_marker)
         indents = []
         source_lines = []
+        failure_lines = []
+        seeing_failures = False
         for line in self.lines:
-            if not is_fail(line):
+            is_source_line = not line.startswith(fail_marker)
+            if is_source_line:
+                assert not seeing_failures, (
+                    "Unexpected failure lines between source lines:\n"
+                    + "\n".join(self.lines)
+                )
                 indents.append(line[:indent_size])
                 source_lines.append(line[indent_size:])
+            else:
+                seeing_failures = True
+                failure_lines.append(line)
 
         tw._write_source(source_lines, indents)
 
         # failure lines are always completely red and bold
-        for line in (x for x in self.lines if is_fail(x)):
+        for line in failure_lines:
             tw.line(line, bold=True, red=True)
 
     def toterminal(self, tw: TerminalWriter) -> None:
diff --git a/src/_pytest/_io/__init__.py b/src/_pytest/_io/__init__.py
index f56579806..28ddc7b78 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/_io/__init__.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/_io/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class TerminalWriter(BaseTerminalWriter):
             self.line(indent + new_line)
 
     def _highlight(self, source):
-        """Highlight the given source code according to the "code_highlight" option"""
+        """Highlight the given source code if we have markup support"""
         if not self.hasmarkup:
             return source
         try:
diff --git a/testing/conftest.py b/testing/conftest.py
index 90cdcb869..58386b162 100644
--- a/testing/conftest.py
+++ b/testing/conftest.py
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ def color_mapping():
                 output = result.stdout.str()
                 assert "test session starts" in output
                 assert "\x1b[1m" in output
-                pytest.skip("doing limited testing because lacking ordered markup")
+                pytest.skip(
+                    "doing limited testing because lacking ordered markup on py35"
+                )
 
     return ColorMapping