[Hmm... It would be petty of him to refuse a simple friendship on the grounds of "you pissed me off so much at school," wouldn't it? Cannot believe propriety has finally failed him. This is a tragedy.]

Regardless of whatever designs on civility you may have, there will be no "company for an evening." I want that to be perfectly clear.

[He can agree to step one: be civil in public, but he can do only so many impossible things in one day, so that is the limit.]

We have never seen eye to eye. Frankly, I don't anticipate that will change. But I am not one to refuse an earnest overture of... friendship.