He wanted to know if he might come and leave his bicycle outside and look through the window of the restaurant, just to see us at dinner.

I told him there might possibly be women-guests.

He replied that he would be delighted to see me in dress-clothes talking to gentlemen and ladies.
"Might he come ?" he persisted.
"Of course I said he could come, and he came, but I never saw him.
"The next time we met he told me all about it; how he had picked you out from my description of you, and how he knew Baueer from his likeness to Dumas _pere_, and he was delightful about it all.
"Now, Frank, would any girl have come to see you enjoying yourself with other people?
Would any girl have stared through the window and been glad to see you inside amusing yourself with other men and women?
You know there's not a girl on earth with such unselfish devotion.

There is no comparison, I tell you, between the boy and the girl; I say again deliberately, you don't know what a great romantic passion is or the high unselfishness of true love." "You have put it with extraordinary ability," I said, "as of course I knew you would.

I think I can understand the charm of such companionship; but only from the young boy's point of view, not from yours.