"Merely ignored me in your ordinary, every-day, man-god, superior fashion.

Naturally it counted for nothing, my telling you that I had no idea of going to Sydney.

Go to Sydney I must, because you, in your superior wisdom, have so decreed." She paused and looked at him curiously, as though he were some strange breed of animal.
"Of course I am grateful for your offer of assistance; but even that is no salve to wounded pride.

For that matter, it is no more than one white man should expect from another.

Shipwrecked mariners are always helped along their way.