One of them is that I cannot bear you to make friends with people who are not of my kind.

I shall never be able to endure that.' 'Of course you are speaking of Mr.Barfoot.' 'Yes,' he avowed sullenly.

'It was a very unfortunate thing that I happened to come up just as he was in your company.' 'You are so very unreasonable,' exclaimed Monica tartly.

'What possible harm is there in Mr.Barfoot, when he meets me by chance in a public place, having a conversation with me?
I wish I knew twenty such men.
Such conversation gives me a new interest in life.

I have every reason to think well of Mr.Barfoot.' Widdowson was in anguish.
'And I,' he replied, in a voice shaken with angry feeling, 'feel that I have every reason to dislike and suspect him.