[The Red Planet by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Planet CHAPTER VIII 6/20
Why should he be tearing about aimlessly on a motor bicycle this May morning when he ought to be in France? "I wish you agreed with me all along the line," said I. He found a little iron garden seat and sat down by my side. "I don't want to enter into controversial questions," he said. Confound him! He might have been fifty instead of four-and-twenty. Controversial questions! His assured young Oxford voice irritated me. "What do you want to enter into ?" I asked. "A question of honour," he answered calmly.
"I have been wanting to speak to you, but I didn't like to.
Passing you by, just now, I made a sudden resolution.
You have thought badly of me on account of my attitude towards Phyllis Gedge.
I want to tell you that you were quite right.
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