"I even indicated to you when I did, if you'll remember--and that was at dinner.

If we two fellows are to live together pleasantly--and I see no reason why we should not--it can only be by respecting each other's privacy.

If we begin intruding--" "O, come! I'll take this at no man's hands.

Is this the way you treat a guest and an old friend ?" cried Innes.
"Just go home and think over what I said by yourself," continued Archie, "whether it's reasonable, or whether it's really offensive or not; and let's meet at dinner as though nothing had happened, I'll put it this way, if you like--that I know my own character, that I'm looking forward (with great pleasure, I assure you) to a long visit from you, and that I'm taking precautions at the first.

I see the thing that we--that I, if you like--might fall out upon, and I step in and _obsto principiis_.