I have rescued you from starvation; I have made you my secretary, and pay you a good salary, and I have introduced you to good society.

Yes, you do indeed owe everything to me.

Yet--" he paused.
"Yet what ?" "Miss Greeby observed that those who have most cause to be grateful are generally the least thankful to those who befriend them.

I am not sure but what she is right." Silver pushed up his lower lip contemptuously, and a derisive expression came over his clean-shaven face.

"Does a clever man like you go to that emancipated woman for experience ?" "Emancipated women are usually very clever," said Pine dryly, "as they combine the logic of the male with the intuition of the female.