‘If Guy can bear to——’
He said:
‘Oh, Guy!’ and stopped short.
‘I think it is abominable,’ he said.
Afterwards he was sorry. Walter was always sorry afterwards,
when he had been cross, but I could not forget the things he
said. He broke his glasses soon after this, the rimless ones
that he had bought to please me. He would not buy any more. He
went back to the old spectacles with the black steel frames.
I could not bear him in those spectacles.