You're welcome." "Maybe I am, but I am obliged, just the same.

Not only for the help you gave Mabel--my daughter--last night, but for that business in the bay the other afternoon." So she had told him the whole story.

Remembering her last words, as I left her in the hall, I had rather imagined she would.
"That didn't amount to anything," I said, shortly.
"Why, yes, it did.

It might have amounted to a whole lot.

I asked Peters some questions about the tides out here and, from what he said, I judge that being stuck on the shoals in a squall might not be altogether a joke.