Attached Friends.
“Odd, isn’t it, George, old boy?”
“More than odd, Saul, old man.”
“When I first saw you I said to myself, ‘This fellow’s an impostor,’ and I felt savage—there, I can give it no better word.”
“And when I clapped eyes on you, I said to myself, ‘This chap will do anything he can to rob me of my rights, and is as jealous as a Turk because that little girl smiled at me.’”
“And I haven’t done all I could to keep you out of your rights?”
“Not you, Saul.”
“I’ve done all I could to help you get them, haven’t I?”
“That you have, old man.”
“And as to being jealous about you and Gertie, why, the thing’s absurd.”