He never knew my father.

But I am sure if Dad had been alive, he would have rescued him just as I did, and then he _would_ have been his 'friend,'-- he could not have helped himself.

That's the way I argued it out to my own heart and conscience." Angus looked at her.
"You darling!" he said suddenly.
She laughed.
"That doesn't come in!" she said.
"It does come in! It comes in everywhere!" he declared.

"There's no other woman in the world that would have done so much for a poor forlorn old tramp like that, adrift on the country roads.

And you exposed yourself to some risk, too, Mary! He might have been a dangerous character!" "Poor dear, he didn't look it," she said gently--"and he hasn't proved it.