Garcia is an old man laden with affairs.

Moreover, men in general have little sympathy with men.

When we are saddened, we do not look to our own sex for cheer.

We look to yours." Almost every woman responds promptly to a claim for pity.
"I am sorry for you, Coronado," said Clara, in her artless way.

"I am, truly." "You do not know, you cannot know, how you console me." Satisfied with the results of his experiment in boring for sympathy, he tried another, a dangerous one, it would seem, but very potent when it succeeds.
"This lack of affection has had sad results.