Grant said quietly: "But before--before you came to hate him, what did you really think of him ?" "I am in a terrible difficulty," said the young man, and his voice told us, like a clear bell, that he was an honest man.

"If I spoke about him as I feel about him now, I could not trust myself.

And I should like to be able to say that when I first saw him I thought he was charming.

But again, the fact is I didn't.

I hate him, that is my private affair.