She commanded him to stay on deck, for each day she saw that he, too, grew more haggard.

"Let me fight it out alone," she would beg of him.

"My worst trouble is that I cannot take care of you." He obeyed her at last, and would come down but once during the day, and then for only a few hurried minutes.

His mother was alarmed at the ghastliness of his face and the expression of anxious wretchedness new to it.

"His eye avoids mine craftily, like that of an insane man," she told herself, and when the doctor came, she asked him whether sea-sickness affected the brain.
On the last day of the voyage the breeze was from land, and with the first breath of it Frances found her vigor suddenly return.