As I stood lookin' at you, wonderin' what to do, though, I had twelve shillin's in my pocket from the watch I'd pawned, there came four men, and I knew from their looks they were recruitin' officers of the navy.

I saw what was in their eyes.

They knew--as why shouldn't they, when they saw a gentleman like you in peasant clothes ?--that luck had been agin' us.
"What the end would have been I don't know.

It was you that solved the problem, not them.

You looked at the first man of them hard.