“You might as well shoot the works. What’s he been up to?” I inquired.
“First, how do the boys like him?”
“They get a great kick out of him. They know he’s not their equal by birth
or breeding or anything like that. It’s a sort of patronizing friendship,
if you get what I mean. That’s what he gets from most people, and what he
resents most when, if and as he gets hep to it.”