5/13 "You come here professing to be civil, and yet you won't help me." "Can't." "You can, sir." "And you wouldn't like me if I did." "Yes, I should, and I never could be grateful enough." "No, you wouldn't. You'd know I was a sneak and a traitor, as you call it, to father and all our chaps, and you'd never like me." "Like you! I tell you I should consider you my best friend." "Not you. Have a puff." "Will you take your miserable stuff away ?" "Have some cream-cheese and new bread." Archy made a blow at him, but Ram only drew back slightly. "You're an officer and a gentleman, you told me one day, and you keep on trying to coax me into doing what you know would be making me a regular sneak. |