"You're a good lad.

I tell you so once more.

You saved me from the sea, and you're standing by me now.

I owe you for it, and I might tell you something, now that my time's at hand.

It's really come true that when I built this house I was building the place in which I am to die, though I didn't dream of it then." Robert was silent, waiting to hear what he would tell him.