"How absurd! That Queensberry man will go to violence, to any extremity.

Don't you fight other people's quarrels: you may have enough of your own some day." "You're not sympathetic, Frank," he chided weakly.

"I know you mean it kindly, but it's impossible for me to do as you advise.

I cannot give up my friend.

I really cannot let Lord Queensberry choose my friends for me.