I suppose I ought to thank God for that.' "Davidson shuddered at any human creature being brought so low as to have to thank God for the favours or affection of a Bamtz.
"'And do you think that you can make out to live here ?' he asked gently.
"'Can't I?
You know I have always stuck to men through thick and thin till they had enough of me.

And now look at me! But inside I am as I always was.

I have acted on the square to them all one after another.
Only they do get tired somehow.

Oh, Davy! Harry ought not to have cast me off.

It was he that led me astray.' "Davidson mentioned to her that Harry the Pearler had been dead now for some years.