I've known you do difficult things before; you manage somehow to get your own way without offending people.' 'H'm,' said Kendal; 'I don't know whether that's flattering or not.' He began to walk up and down the room again cogitating.

'I don't mind trying,' he said at last, 'in a very gingerly way.

I can't, of course, undertake to be brutal.

It would be impossible for any one to treat _her_ roughly.

But there might be ways of doing it.