I am really very much in your debt.

Do you think I shall ever be able to repay you ?" "Of course; if not me, then someone else.

Such things are always passed on," she said lightly.
"Of choice I would rather pay my debt in this case, if indeed it can be paid, to the person to whom I owe it," he said, with a slow emphasis which made her heart beat tumultuously.

Then she remembered that it was her duty to stand aside for Mary's sake, and that she must not let this man love her if Mary had set her own affections upon him, as Nellie had more than hinted.
A cold shiver shook Katherine then, for now the chill came from within as well as without, and the dreary day wrapped her exhausted body in its dismal discomfort.
"Don't talk," she said with a touch of authority in her tone.
"Save your strength for enduring.

See, here comes a man running down from the fish-flakes; he has come to help us, and now we shall get on faster, you will find.".