Neither you nor I have so many friends that we can afford to lose one without an effort to save him.

The world is full of men and women, but a friend is a gift of God.

I thought you had forgiven me what I said at Sundridge.

Your time to take offence was then, not now." "I hold no ill will for what you said then in my hearing.

It is what you have done in so cowardly a manner since I last saw you, and at a time when I was not present to hear or to resent it." "But what have I done ?" I asked.
"You should know.