Yet I ought not to be selfish.

Of course, the incident is all new to you--you have been away from all kinds of news; to us it is an old, worn-out story.
Lord Arleigh and I quarreled and parted because of his marriage, so you may imagine it is not a very attractive subject to me." "Well, I will say no more about it, but I am sincerely sorry, Philippa.
Of all our friends, I like Lord Arleigh best; and I shall decidedly refuse to quarrel with him.

His marriage is his own affair, not mine." "Still, you cannot make a friend of the man whom I decline to know," she rejoined, hurriedly.
"Certainly not, if you place the matter in such a light," he said, gravely.

"I shall always consider it my pleasure and duty to consult you on such points.

I will call no man my friend whom you dislike." So, for the time, all danger was tided over; the duke saw that the subject annoyed his wife, and did not voluntarily resume it.