"On that I'll stake my soul." "What was it, then ?" retorted Aunt Charlotte.

"Anyhow, Austin, there seems no doubt that, under God, it was what you did that saved my life to-day.

But what made you do it?
How could you possibly tell that you were preventing me from getting killed ?" "I should have told you all that long ago if you weren't so hopelessly illogical, auntie," he replied.

"But you never can see the connection between cause and effect.

That was the reason I couldn't explain why I didn't want you to go, even before I locked you up.