Forgive me, but it is so." "'I was a little annoyed and very troubled.

"Do explain," I said.
"'"All right, only you mustn't mind if I hurt you," he said.

"Take _Trust in Christ_--well, that either means that a man gets intoxicated by an idea which does control his life, just as it would if he were intoxicated by the idea _Trust in Buddha_, or else it comes to nothing.

I can't really trust in a dead man, or a man on the right hand of the throne of God.

What Tommy wants is a pal to lean on in the canteen and the street.
He wants somebody more real and more lovable and more desirable than the girl who tempts him into sin.