"Why did you go to the trouble of seeing that we had supplies?"
"Invalids has got to eat. Ma'am."
"Why did you stop that—that brute—when he was entertaining his companions with his idea of humor?"
"A man would just naturally do that, Ma'am; it's an instinct."
"Why did you do what you did the day, and night, that my brother was stopped from going to Highbank for the doctor?"
"A man would do that, too; an' any doctor that forgets his duty deserves to be stole an' made do it."
"You realize, of course, that you are getting yourself into great danger?"
"I wouldn't hardly call it that, Ma'am," he replied, smiling. "There are different breeds. A man might get scared at a pack of wolves, an' not worry about coyotes, at all."
"Nevertheless, the danger exists; no man is proof against ambush. Why are you courting it?" she persisted.