"We need to treat our friends like friends," he says.

Yet, when trying to choose a doctor from among those treating your friends, it seemed you couldn't go wrong picking one at random.

"I expect you to treat my friends with respect, Stephanie."

He seemed to be the only one who was treating her friends with any sort of kindness.

"In our view, that's not how you treat your friends."

That is not the way I treat my friends.

He wanted to be alone, and he treated his old friends so badly that after a visit or two they stopped coming.

Let me assure you that this is not the way we usually treat our friends.

A friend," she said, "would treat my friends with respect.

He treated his friends and his lovers in the same way.