“Oh, you can’t tell from appearances—Rogues are always plausible.”
“Still mistakes are sometimes made. I’d trust Rodney Ropes sooner than any boy I know.”
“You don’t know him as well as I do.”
“You don’t like him?” said James shrewdly.
“No I don’t. I can’t like a thief.”
“You talk as if you had a grudge against him.”
“Nothing but his being a thief. Well, what are you going to do about it?”
“About what?”
“What I have just told you.”
“I don’t feel that I have any call to do anything.”