Others would like to be friendly, but you will not permit them to be.

And, yet for these people, mere acquaintances, you are sacrificing what Father would call a profitable deal." "Not altogether for them.

I can't explain my feeling exactly.

I know only that to sell them out and make money--and heaven knows I need money--at their expense seems to me dead wrong." "Then why don't you sell to THEM ?" "I don't know.

Unless it was because to refuse your father's offer and accept a lower one seemed a mean trick, too.