“I’m honest when I say I have nothing against Mr. Means. I don’t know the man well enough for that. I suppose he can’t help his ways.”
“There, you’ve gone and spoiled it. I was beginning to think that you are like other men.”
“Like other men?”
“Men who love and hate. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you are really fond of that man who fought you at the Inn.”
“He was a good boxer,” was the enthusiastic reply.
“And you like him?”
“I might if I knew him.”
“Can you fight everybody like that, and still have love for them?”
“Self-control is the better word. Unless a man can learn that, he had better stay out of the ring. What is true in boxing, is just as true in life.”
“But, when there are those who threaten to 204 wreck your whole life and your work, what are you going to do?”