"We've been thinking so much of Miss Bubbles and of her rescuer that we have forgotten you!" he exclaimed.
Their host leant forward; he buried his face in his hands.

"I shall never forget it--never," he muttered brokenly.

"The horror that seized me--the awful feeling that I could do nothing--nothing! I felt so absolutely distraught that I seemed to see _myself_, not Bubbles, floating down there--on the surface of the water." He looked up, and they were all, even Tapster, painfully impressed by his look of retrospective horror.

Dr.Panton told himself that Lionel Varick was an even more sensitive man than he had hitherto known him to be..