As we walked away from the house I said, "It is now several days that I have been living in your household on a most extraordinary footing, or rather on none at all.

I have not spoken of this aspect of my position before because there were so many other aspects yet more extraordinary.

But now that I am beginning a little to feel my feet under me, and to realize that, however I came here, I am here, and must make the best of it, I must speak to you on this point." "As for your being a guest in my house," replied Dr.Leete, "I pray you not to begin to be uneasy on that point, for I mean to keep you a long time yet.

With all your modesty, you can but realize that such a guest as yourself is an acquisition not willingly to be parted with." "Thanks, doctor," I said.

"It would be absurd, certainly, for me to affect any oversensitiveness about accepting the temporary hospitality of one to whom I owe it that I am not still awaiting the end of the world in a living tomb.