"I admire the quiet man of power, though I confess that such quietness under stress seems to me almost unearthly and beyond human.

I can't conceive of myself acting that way, and I am confident that I was suffering more while that poor devil was in the water than all the rest of the onlookers put together." "Father suffers!" she defended loyally.

"Only he does not show it." I bowed, for I felt she had missed my point..