They had no point of view in common; Dory regarded as incidental and trivial the things which seemed of the highest importance to Arthur.

Dory had his way to make in the world; Arthur had been spared that discomfort and disadvantage.

Yet Dory persisted in pretending to regard Arthur as in precisely the same position as himself; once he had even carried the pretense to the impertinence of affecting to sympathize with Arthur for being so sorely handicapped.

On that occasion Arthur had great difficulty in restraining plain speech.

He would not have been thus tactful and gentlemanly had he not realized that Dory meant the best in the world, and was wholly unconscious that envy was his real reason for taking on such a preposterous pose.