"He'll be so cocky that he'll dare me to fire him if I say a word, and grin in my face, for he knows now that he's a good man and that I know it and will never let him go." "Higginson, is that his name ?" Louise asked.

"Well, he is a good man.
When he started the engineer using the chloroform and me arranging things, he was swallowing hard.

I saw he was terribly nervous and keyed up.

But he went right at the operation without faltering and with a sort of doggedness.

As if nothing should stop him.