I had known him intimately in the old days, and naturally I got up delighted to see him, and went towards him.

But he turned his head aside and pedalled past me deliberately.

He meant to cut me.

Of course I know that just before my trial in London he took my name off the bill of my comedy, though he went on playing it.

But I was not angry with him for that, though he might have behaved as well as Wyndham,[29] who owed me nothing, don't you think?
"Here there was nobody to see him, yet he cut me.