He was more at ease when Schmidt said, "We are in the strange position of being two men one of whom twice owes his life to the other."
"Ah, but you forget to consider what unending kindness I too owe—I, a stranger in a strange land; nor what your example, your society, have been to me."
"Thank you, René; I could gather more of good from you than you from me."
"Oh, sir!"
"Yes, yes; but all that I have said is but to lead up to the wide obligation to be frank with me."
"I shall be."
"When I was ill I babbled. I was sometimes half-conscious, and was as one man helplessly watching another on the rack telling about him things he had no mind to hear spoken."
"You wandered much, sir."
"Then did I speak of a woman?"