Of course, Perry had expected this reaction, and secretly he welcomed it, for his friendship with Dick, whom he had scarcely known until his final few months in Lansing, was an outgrowth of, and counterbalance to, the intensity of his admiration for the chaplain's clerk.
Perryk espero zuen erreakzio hori, jakina, eta bere zokoenean onartu ere egin zuen, zeren bere Dickekiko adiskidetasuna, Lansingeko azken hilabeteak arte ezagutu ez zuen mutil harekikoa, kapelauaren laguntzailearenganako mirespen bortitzaren eranskina eta kontrapisua baitzen.