"What did he say to you to-day?"
Osmond laughed. It was a low note of pleasure.
"Platitudes," he rejoined.
"And what did you say to him?"
"Platitudes again. He said his kind, I said mine. I learned a few truths."
"About his business?—that's what it is. I can say it when I'm not in the same room with him—business."
"About me. I learned what other fellows know when they are boys."
"Did he teach you?"
"He? No. Yes. Through my hatred of him."
"Ah, then you hated him! Was it because I taught you to?"