Yes, 'come to think of it,' as they say in America, we do.

But what shall I tell you?
Practically we all know it and allow for it and it's as broad as it's long.

What's London life after all?
It's tit for tat!" "Ah but what becomes of friendship ?" Mr.Longdon earnestly and pleadingly asked, while he still held Vanderbank's arm as if under the spell of the vivid explanation supplied him.
The young man met his eyes only the more sociably.

"Friendship ?" "Friendship." Mr.Longdon maintained the full value of the word.
"Well," his companion risked, "I dare say it isn't in London by any means what it is at Beccles.

I quite literally mean that," Vanderbank reassuringly added; "I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies--in great towns and great crowds.