Am I too severe ?' 'Not more so than you have often been.

Many a time you have told me how you despised me.' He was silent, then spoke impulsively.
'Well, perhaps the word is not too strong; though it is not your very self that I despise, but the ignorance and bigotry which possess you.

It is a pity; I believe you might be a woman of quite a different kind.' 'Of pronounced character ?' 'Precisely.

You are neither one thing nor another.

You have told me what you think of me; shall I be equally frank and speak as if you were a college friend?
For at all events we _are_ friends.' 'I am not sure of that.' 'Oh, but I am; and we shall be friends none the worse for ingenuousness on both sides.