On the other hand, he had trouble with his friends.

Streuss drew him on one side at Ostend, and talked to him plainly.
"Von Behrling," he said, "I speak to you on behalf of Kahn and myself.

Wine and women and pleasure are good things.

We two, we love them, perhaps, as you do, but there is a place and a time for them, and it is not now.

Our mission is too serious." "Well, well!" Von Behrling exclaimed impatiently, "what is all this?
What do I do wrong?
What have you to say against me?
If I talk with Mademoiselle Idiale, it is because it is the natural thing for me to do.