"The difficulty of my enjoyment of that is, don't you see?
that I'm making, in my loyalty to Maggie, a sad hash of his affection for me." "You find means to call it then, this whitewashing of his crime, being 'loyal' to Maggie ?" "Oh, about that particular crime there is always much to say.

It is always more interesting to us than any other crime; it has at least that for it.

But of course I call everything I have in mind at all being loyal to Maggie.

Being loyal to her is, more than anything else, helping her with her father--which is what she most wants and needs." The Colonel had had it before, but he could apparently never have too much of it.

"Helping her 'with' him-- ?" "Helping her against him then.