But why did you let him go so far to start with before you pulled him up?
That's what I've never been able to understand about you.

If you behaved different to start with they would behave different to you.

They would know they'd have to." "I have not your art," said Lord Newhaven, tranquilly, "of letting a man know when he's getting out of hand that unless he goes steady there will be a row, and he'll be in it.

I'm not made like that." "It works well," said Dick.

"It's a sort of peaceful way of rubbing along and keeping friends.