His eyes, which sparkle brightly, wander over the ocean, and he draws in deep breaths of the salt, vivifying atmosphere.

Added to the air surcharged with oxygen is a magnificent sunset in a cloudless sky.

Does he perceive the change in his situation?
Has he already forgotten about Healthful House, the pavilion in which he was a prisoner, and Gaydon, his keeper?
It is highly probable.

The past has presumably been effaced from his memory and he lives solely in the present.
In my opinion, even on the deck of the _Ebba_, in the middle of the sea, Thomas Roch is still the helpless, irresponsible man whom I tended for fifteen months.

His intellectual condition has undergone no change, and his reason will return only when he is spoken to about his inventions.