Henceforth they are doomed and become the subject of apology on the part of friends and relations.

"He's all right," they say, "but he suffers from over-refinement." He lacks something--we cannot make out just what.

It is altogether too bad for he is such a superior man among _his social equals_.
We must take our hats off to those who have the goodness of heart to make allowance for our shortcomings.

A disinterested listener, however, is seldom taken into camp by such well intended argument.

He knows that "friend husband" or "friend brother" as the case may be, needs some sort of swift kick that will stir his combativeness into action--that will cause him to turn upon his mental inferior and have it out with him then and there--once and for all.