When we had got it overboard, the flames were gathering far and wide.
I don't remember what I did until I heard Edward's voice speaking your name." It was decided that the next morning they should set off homeward, striving on their way to obtain tidings of Edward.

Frank would have given his only valuable, (his mother's diamond-guard, which he wore constantly,)as a pledge for some advance of money; but the kind Welsh people would not have it.

They had not much spare cash, but what they had they readily lent to the survivors of the Anna-Maria.

Dressed in the homely country garb of the people, Frank and Maggie set off in their car.

If was a clear, frosty morning; the first that winter.