Yesterday my strength suddenly deserted me and I became helpless." "How fortunate it was that Maud noticed you!" exclaimed Patsy, with generous sympathy.
Again the half sad smile softened his face as he looked at her.
"I am not sure it was wholly fortunate for me," he said, "although I admit I have no wish to end my uninteresting life by drowning.

I am not a misanthrope, in spite of my bad stomach.

The world is more useful to me than I am to the world, but that is not my fault.

Pardon me for talking so much about myself." "Oh, we are intensely interested, I assure you," replied Patsy.

"If some of us were indeed the instruments that saved you yesterday, it is a pleasure to us to know something of the--the man--we saved." She had almost said "boy," he was such a youthful person, and he knew it as well as she did.
"I would like to meet Miss Stanton and thank her personally," he presently resumed.