I personally am sympathetic.
But what about the cold-blooded other people, who don't know what you've told me?
To them he's the son of an ex-convict--a vendor of fried fish--I put it brutally from their point of view--who has been masquerading as a young St.George on horseback.

Will he ever be forgiven?
Officially, have I any use for him?
You see, I'm responsible to the party." "Any party," said Ursula, "would be a congregation of imbeciles who didn't do their best to develop the genius of Paul Savelli." "I'm fond of Paul," said Colonel Winwood, in his tired way, "but I don't know that I would go as far as that." "It's only because you're a limited male, my dear James.

I suppose Caesar was the only man who really crossed the Rubicon.

And the fuss he made about it! Women jump across with the utmost certainty.

My dear Frank, we're behind Paul, whatever happens.