I noticed with pleasure the quick toss of the cigar overboard as he recognized and bore down upon me.

We were immense friends; John liked him too.

He was one of those people who make a tremendous difference; in all our three hundred passengers there could be no one like him, certainly no one whom I could be more glad to see.

We plunged at once into immediate personal affairs, we would get at the heart of them later.

He gave his vivid word to everything he had seen and done; we laughed and exclaimed and were silent in a concert of admirable understanding.