Miss Roussillon would keep him here if the place were on fire!" Hamilton laughed dryly.

He had thought just what Helm was saying.
Beverley's attentions to Alice had not escaped his notice.
"Speaking of that girl," he remarked after a moment's silence, "what am I do to do with her?
There's no place to keep her, and Farnsworth insists that she wasn't to blame." He chuckled again and added: "It's true as gospel.

He's in love with her, too.

Seems to be glad she shot him.

Says he's ashamed of himself for ever suspecting her of anything but being a genuine angel.