It made me glad.

Now I knew that she would need me.

An old man is like a woman, McTee; he needs to have things dependent on him.
"I turned everything I had into cash.

I did it so hurriedly that I must have lost close to twenty per cent on the forced sales.

What did I care?
I had enough, and I made myself into a grandfather who could meet Beatrice's educated friends on their own level.
"I kept this old ship, the _Heron_, out of the list of my boats.