Opera Glasses Whether to behave with some coolness to Mitchell, and be stand-offish, as though it had been all his fault, or to be lavishly apologetic, was the question.

Bruce could not make up his mind which attitude to take.
In a way, it was all the Mitchells' fault.

They oughtn't to have given him a verbal invitation.

It was rude, Bohemian, wanting in good form; it showed an absolute and complete ignorance of the most ordinary and elementary usages of society.

It was wanting in common courtesy; really, when one came to think about it, it was an insult.