However I felt compelled to accept the chance.

The light was so dim that I believed I could steal cautiously along in the deeper shadows without attracting attention from the deck, even if someone stood there on watch.
I moved noiselessly leaving my own door slightly ajar, and crept along close to the side walls until I attained my destination.
Nothing occurred causing me to fear my movements were detected.

To have knocked at the closed door however softly might be overheard, so knowing it to be unlocked I merely lifted the latch noiselessly, and slipped quickly within.

There was no light, except a glimmer of stars through a large after port, but against this faint radiance she stood vaguely revealed.

Evidently the girl had been standing there, gazing out at the waters, and had turned swiftly about at my entrance, aroused by some slight sound.