I was trying to reconstruct the picture as I had last seen her at Biggleswick station ...
A heavy body collided with me and shook my arm from the rope.

I slithered across the yard of deck, engulfed in a whirl of water.

One foot caught a stanchion of the rail, and it gave with me, so that for an instant I was more than half overboard.

But my fingers clawed wildly and caught in the links of what must have been the anchor chain.

They held, though a ton's weight seemed to be tugging at my feet ...