Isobel shook hands with him without speaking.
"We are all heavily indebted to you, Mr.Bathurst," Mrs.Doolan said.
"If we escape from this, it will be to you that we humanly owe our lives." She spoke in a voice that all in the room could hear.
"Your are right, Mrs.Doolan," the Doctor said; "and I think that there are some who must regret now the manner in which they have behaved to Bathurst since this siege began." "I do for one," Captain Doolan said, coming forward.
"I have regretted it for some time, though I have not had the manliness to say so.

I am heartily sorry.

I have done you a great and cruel injustice.

I ought to have known that the Doctor, who knew you vastly better than I did, was not likely to be mistaken.

Putting that aside, I ought to have seen, and I did see, though I would not acknowledge it even to myself, that no man has borne himself more calmly and steadfastly through this siege than you have, and that by twice venturing out among the enemy you gave proof that you possessed as much courage as any of us.