"I'll be honest with you and confess that you are right.

Half the girls at school were that way.
They might be fair and high-minded about everything else, but when it came to that one thing they were--well, as you say, regular cats.

They didn't have the faintest conception of what a David and Jonathan friendship could be like.

Even the ordinary kind didn't seem to bind them in any way, or impose any obligation on them when their own interests were concerned." "Deliver me from such friends!" ejaculated Rob.

"I'd rather have a sworn enemy.