You have something in your mind behind that, something which you are half inclined to say to me.

Isn't that so?
Why not go on ?" "Because I am not sure of you," Selingman confessed frankly.

"Because you might misunderstand what I say, and we should be friends no longer, and you would say silly things about me and my views.
Therefore, I like to keep you for a friend, and I go no further at present.

You say that you are a little angry with your country, but you Englishmen are so very prejudiced, so very quick to take offence, so very insular, if I may use the word.

I do not know how angry you are with your country.