We have always been friends.

It would be folly to attempt to delude you into believing that a sentimental motive is back of our--shall we say enterprise ?" "Yes, that is what I would call it," said he levelly.

"It is a more refined word than scheme." "The world will be grateful for the opportunity to bear me out in all that I have said to you," she went on.

"It will cheerfully, even gleefully supply any of the little details I may have considered unnecessary or superfluous in describing the situation.

You are at liberty, then, to go forth and assist in the castigation.