Then she partly roused herself.
"What--why do you say that ?" "I have learned that he is not fit to associate with you--is not fit to associate with any girl!" "What have you heard, father ?" she demanded, in a trembling voice.

"I know that whatever it is, it isn't true, for Buck is fit to associate with any girl!" She half-expected him to refer to the fracas of the evening before in the campus.
"If there is one thing on which I am determined, it is that my daughter shall never marry a drunkard!" "Buck isn't a drunkard!" "He was drunk when he was taken aboard the _Crested Foam_ by that boatman, Barney Lynn." "No, father!" "You think not, of course.

You think he was drugged." "He was drugged.

Lynn drugged him.

He was not drunk, and he had not been drinking.