For his was the role of an outsider.
Certain friendships that she maintained, moreover, were exceedingly distasteful to him.
"Ruth, I've nothing against your going around so much with Gretzinger," he said one evening, "except that I don't like the fellow and believe he's crooked, and it may, under the circumstances, create gossip." "Nonsense, Lee, don't be jealous.

Gretzie never takes me anywhere except in a crowd.

And don't say he's crooked, or I shall be angry." "Well, let him pass," he went on.

"It's Charlie Menocal I've more in mind.

He talks openly against my project; he calls me a thief and a ruffian; he's an avowed enemy.