I promise you solemnly here under God's sky that I'll never drink another drop of intoxicating liquor again if I know it as long as I live." He put out his hand toward her, and she put her own into it with a quick grasp for just an instant.
"Then you're not like other men, after all," she said with a glad ring in her voice.

"That must be why I wasn't so very much afraid of you when I woke up and found you standing there." A distinct sense of pleasure came over him at her words.

Why it should make him glad that she had not been afraid of him when she had first seen him in the wilderness he did not know.

He forgot all about his own troubles.

He forgot the lady in the automobile.