Emphasis Added

"For many years we’ve been meeting at this bar every night, and we’ve come to feel like travelers who’ve been sharing a train compartment for a long time when suddenly some strangers come in. In spite of that, one or other of the newcomers manages to win us over, to the extent that, following a brief hostile silence, the conversation is resumed, almost like a piece of music after a pause. Nothing encourages us more than the sudden perception that the gate-crasher, having blundered in from some other quartier to buy cigarettes, would actually qualify quite well for life here with us."

Joseph Roth, In The Bistro After Midnight.