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"It is all right The table steward said so"

"Yes, but go and irl turned to Sahtn't to have done it! Really, you oughtn't! Youso wonderful It was like the stories of knights who used to juloves!"

"Yes?" said Sauely The reseh on the lions, too

"It was the sort of thing Sir Lancelot or Sir Galahad would have done! But you shouldn't have bothered, really! It's all right now"

"Oh, it's all right now?"

"Yes I'd quite forgotten that Mr Mortiiven me all the money I shall need You see it was this way I had to sail on this boat in rather a hurry Father's head clerk was to have gone to the bank and got soiven it to ot to the dock they had just pulled in the gang-plank So he tried to throw the money to me in a handkerchief and it fell into the water But you shouldn't have dived in after it"

"Oh, well!" said Sa his tie, with a quiet brave srateful to that obese bounder who had shoved him off the rail, but noould have liked to seek him out and offer him his bank-roll

"You really are the bravest man I ever met!"

"Oh, no!"

"How modest you are! But I suppose all brave hted at what looked like a chance of doing you a service"

"It was the extraordinary quickness of it that was so wonderful I do admire presence of mind You didn't hesitate for a second You just shot over the side as though propelled by so really One just happens to have the knack of keeping one's head and acting quickly on the spur of the moment Some people have it, so"

"It is all right," said Mr Morti suddenly "I saw a couple of stewards and they both said it was all right So it's all right"