"Chair or no chair he would have died just the same.

I saw it coming.

And your presence there this summer freed him entirely from money worries.

He even paid me." "Yes," said Kenny, "my money helped him drink himself to death." The doctor sighed.
"Oh, well," he said, "that too would have happened just the same." Kenny brushed his hair back dazedly from his forehead and rose.

He felt as if he had fallen from a great height and hit his head.