Chapter 36

"Why not? I don't want to interfere with your making a name for yourself. You have a very well-known and admired name already, of which I am immensely proud. I shouldn't put a stone in your way. On the contrary, I should do my best to take stones out of your way. I could do that, too." "But for every stone you took out of my way you'd put up a high concrete wall instead. You might not mean to, but you would. You're the sort of man who----" "You don't know the sort of man I am." "I think I do." He shook his head. "Y…