He was very popular before he lost his job; everybody in the house liked Brady.

The old man was rather especially fond of him, but you know that when a man loses his job and loses his ability to support himself and to pay his way as he goes, it makes a great difference in the way people look at him and feel about him." "Is that so! Is it so ?" Barrow looked at Tracy in a puzzled way.

"Why of course it's so.
Wouldn't you know that, naturally.

Don't you know that the wounded deer is always attacked and killed by its companions and friends ?" Tracy said to himself, while a chilly and boding discomfort spread itself through his system, "In a republic of deer and men where all are free and equal, misfortune is a crime, and the prosperous gore the unfortunate to death." Then he said aloud, "Here in the boarding house, if one would have friends and be popular instead of having the cold shoulder turned upon him, he must be prosperous." "Yes," Barrow said, "that is so.

It's their human nature.