"Yes."

"Come, don't look so cut up. It isn't fair to me. I've spent all day looking things in the face and you must help."

"I've come here as you asked. What is there to say?"

"Do you still feel the same about her?"

"Yes. It will always be the same."

"We have come to the end of things. Is that it?"

"It needn't be that. There is friendship left."

"Fall from first to second place? How dare you ask me that.... What makes you like this? She has nothing more than her looks. She has no education. She can have only a child's experience of life."

"It makes no difference."

"And where will you be when the glamour has gone?"