Donovan was the kind of a man, he thought, that Julie must like, and he was the kind of man, too, to put him, Peter, into the shade.

Ordinarily he asked for no better companion, but he hated to see Julie and Jack together.

He could not make the girl out, and he wanted to do so.

He wanted to know what she thought about many things, and--incidentally, of course--what she thought about him.
He had argued all this over next morning while shaving, and had ended by cutting himself.

It was a slight matter, but it argued a certain absent-mindedness, and it brought him back to decency.