I don't mean to be rude, you know, but one good turn in frankness deserves another." "I like you the better for that." A cluster of fine lines appeared at the corners of the Governor's laughing eyes.

"But, once for all, you must get rid of your false impressions of me, and see me as a fact, not as a kind of social scarecrow.

First of all, you think I am an extremist--well, I am not.

I am merely a man of facts.

I see the world as it is and you see it as you wish it to be--that is the difference between us.