"Your company more than compensates. Besides, we should probably have got to loggerheads in any case, and without anything like so good a reason."
"It would have been better, I think, if you had let me go when I was so nearly gone, and not rubbed me back to life."
"I thank God that you came," he said weightily. "Without you we might have sunk into savages, caring only for the lower things. You lift me without knowing it."
"You couldn't sink into a savage. He is one naturally. And I am becoming one, for I am all the time wishing he were dead."
"He must be having a bad time, unless he brought over provisions that last time, and I doubt if he did. He's probably living chiefly on rum. And that won't bring him to any better frame of mind, I'm afraid."
"To think," she mused, "that three people cannot live on an island big enough to hold thousands, without quarrelling to the death!"
"The trouble is not of our making, so we need not blame ourselves."
"Yes, it is. I began it by coming ashore. You ought to have let me stop out there——"
"You are very much better here."
"——And you continued it by bringing me back to life. You ought to have let me die."