daniel was already by this time a heavy drinker , and there are numerous accounts of hotel staff members having to help him to his suite cortland also kept an eye on him continuously , and in later years when daniel bought a motor car , it was cortland who was always offering to drive daniel home so that he would n't kill himself or someone else cortland seems to have liked daniel very much he was the defender of daniel to the rest of the family , which became -over the years an ever more demanding role .