"Is that a compliment?"
"Depends on whom you ask. You'll think of it? Think of what you might do and be. Now, I'm off."
Stafford rose to show him out.
"I'm not sure whether I ought to thank you," he said.
"You will think of it?"
"Yes."
"And you won't kill yourself without seeing me again?"
"You were afraid of that?"
"Yes. Was I wrong?"
"No."