I am proud to be able to say that my name stands good wherever it has been used.

It may seem egotistical that I say such things of myself.
It may seem bad taste; but I speak because I have a motive in so doing.

I want you to understand at the outset that in my own country, wherever I am known and in my own work, my name is a strength.' He paused a while.

Harold sat still; he knew that such man would not, could not, speak in such a way without a strong motive; and to learn that motive he waited.
'When you were in the water making what headway you could in that awful sea--when my little child's life hung in the balance, and the anguish of my wife's heart nearly tore my heart in two, I said to myself, "If we had a son I should wish him to be like that." I meant it then, and I mean it now! Come to me as you are! Faults, and past, and all.

Forget the past! Whatever it was we will together try to wipe it out.