One finds queer things at the bottom of the sea, you know.

By the way I hope that you are recovering.

I do not think that you will care to go canoeing again with me, Mr.Bingham." There was an opening for a compliment here, but Geoffrey felt that it would be too much in earnest if spoken, so he resisted the temptation.
"What, Miss Granger," he said, "should a man say to a lady who but last night saved his life, at the risk, indeed almost at the cost, of her own ?" "It was nothing," she answered, colouring; "I clung to you, that was all, more by instinct than from any motive.

I think I had a vague idea that you might float and support me." "Miss Granger, the occasion is too serious for polite fibs.

I know how you saved my life.