Ram looked the midshipman hard in the face again.
“You mean, if I’d seen you lying down here like I was, I should have gone and fetched the rope and pulled you up?”
“Yes; I am sure you would.”
Ram sat in his old position, with his hand to the back of his aching head.
“But it’s being a gentleman made you do it.”
“No; anybody who saw a person in danger would try and save his life; and you would have tried to save mine.”
“But I might have slipped and gone over the cliff.”
“You wouldn’t have thought about that,” said Archy quietly. “You did not think about the danger when you saw me trying to escape.”
“No, I didn’t, did I?” said Ram thoughtfully. “I knew how savage father would be if you got away and fetched the sailors; and he told me I was to see you didn’t get out, so I come down after you.”
“And you would have done as I said.”