They are first-cousins of the people who talk in different keys." "I should have said they were the same." "Well, perhaps they are; I believe you are right.

Christopher Thornley is one of that sort; when you are discussing one side of a thing with him, you'll find him playing bo-peep with you round the other; and you never can get him into the right mood at the right time.

He makes me simply furious sometimes.

Do you know, I think if I were a dog I should often bite Christopher?
He makes me angry in a biting kind of way." Alan smiled faintly at this; jokes at Christopher's expense were naturally more humorous than jokes at his own.

"And what other sorts of people make you angry ?" he asked.
"I'm afraid the people who make me angriest of all are the people who won't do what I tell them.