"And if he DID anything I shouldn't mind.

But no, he simply can't come away from a game of whist, or else he must see a girl home from the skating-rink--quite proprietously--and so can't get home.

He's a fool." "I don't know that it would make it any better if he did something to make us all ashamed," said Mrs.Morel.
"Well, I should respect him more," said Paul.
"I very much doubt it," said his mother coldly.
They went on with breakfast.
"Are you fearfully fond of him ?" Paul asked his mother.
"What do you ask that for ?" "Because they say a woman always like the youngest best." "She may do--but I don't.

No, he wearies me." "And you'd actually rather he was good ?" "I'd rather he showed some of a man's common sense." Paul was raw and irritable.

He also wearied his mother very often.