He was a gentleman.

But no words could do justice to the conditions of life on Samburan.

A desert island was nothing to it.
Moreover, when you were cast away on a desert island--why, you could not help yourself; but to expect a fiddle-playing girl out of an ambulant ladies' orchestra to remain content there for a day, for one single day, was inconceivable.

She would be frightened at the first sight of it.

She would scream.
The capacity for sympathy in these stout, placid men! Davidson was stirred to the depths; and it was easy to see that it was about Heyst that he was concerned.