Then I would not be obliged to be fettered to those two horrid boys.

I can't stand it, and you now know yourself what they are like." Bruno had described his two comrades to his new friend, their mean attitude and their frequent and contemptible tricks.

Salo had repeatedly shown his feeling by sudden exclamations and he said now with comforting sympathy, "I am sure it must make you feel like running away if you are obliged to spend all your days with two such boys.

But don't listen to them, pay no attention to them, and let them do and say what they please.
If they want to be mean, let them be, for they can't make you different." "Oh, if you could be with me, that would be much easier," Bruno said.

"I should know then that you felt with me and shared my anger.