he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
She was incurably dishonest.
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.