Whatever I was, I was dependable.

If I should become attached to him he could rely upon me in case of need.

This, I think, made him regard me at this early stage of our friendship as a person not to be neglected in his business of creating adherents.

When I spoke to him in terms of wonder and congratulation of his defeat of Wyatt, he took it with a smile and as a matter of course.

He had found it an easy thing to rout Wyatt.