“You shall only pretend to touch it. All I want is to convince the others that it’s against your interest to split. Self-interest is the one motive they understand. Your bare word would be good enough for me.”
“Suppose I won’t give my bare word?” said I, in a gentle manner which I did not mean to be as irritating as it doubtless was. Yet his proposals and his assumptions were between them making me irritable in my turn.
“You shall only pretend to touch it. All I want is to convince the others that it’s against your interest to split. Self-interest is the one motive they understand. Your bare word would be good enough for me.”
“Suppose I won’t give my bare word?” said I, in a gentle manner which I did not mean to be as irritating as it doubtless was. Yet his proposals and his assumptions were between them making me irritable in my turn.
