Can you wonder that I'm delighted?
And not only has he got tastes, but he has the strength of character to back them.

Michael, in the Guards too! It was a perfect farce, and he's had the sense to see it.

He hated his duties, and he hated his diversions.

Now Francis--" "I am afraid Michael has always been a little jealous of Francis," remarked his father.
This roused Barbara; she spoke quite seriously: "If you really think that, my dear," she said, "you have the distinction of being the worst possible judge of character that the world has ever known.

Michael might be jealous of anybody else, for the poor boy feels his physical awkwardness most sensitively, but Francis is just the one person he really worships.