If you would like me to put it in another form, he has a very courteous way of resisting.

He is most aggravating, Miss Clinton.

He is most disappointing.

He should be like soft clay in our hands, and he isn't.

Is that not so ?" "Is it not possible, Madame Obosky, that we,--you and I,--may have an entirely different viewpoint so far as Mr.Percival is concerned?
Or any other man, for that matter ?" Ruth spoke coldly, almost insultingly.
"I dare say," agreed Olga, composedly, not in the least offended by the implication.