There was nothing insulting in the man's tone.

He seemed to be thoroughly in earnest.

Perhaps he regarded his point of view as right, and Dick, a boy of thought and resource, saw that it was not worth while to make a quarrel.

But he resolved to remember Watson, feeling that the course of events might bring them together again.
"I suppose it's as you say," he said.

"You're a man of affairs and you ought to know." Watson smiled at him.