If death should come to him the next day he would still thank God for having given him an hour of life.
That was what he said--all.

It expressed pretty well what he felt he should feel.

That reference to God she would, of course, understand.

God was to him a Figure of Speech.

He had said as much to Phyllis Ayrton.
But then he had said that he had regarded God to mean the Power by which men were able (sometimes) successfully to combat the influences of nature.