'All I can tell you is, I know boys.' Aminta persisted in looking thoughtful.

'Things are bad, as they are now,' she said.
'Always were--always will be.

They were intended to be, if we are to call them bad.

Botched mendings will only make them worse.' 'Which side suffers ?' 'Both; and both like it.

One side must be beaten at any game.