"Left hand first! Put your arm round my neck, and then get round and hang on with the other! It's only a few feet more.

I can manage it." They were the most definite instructions she had ever received in her life, and the most difficult to obey.

She hung, clinging with both hands, still vainly seeking a foothold, desperately afraid to relinquish her hold and trust herself unreservedly to his single-handed strength.

But, as he waited, it came to her that it was the only thing to do.

With a gasp she freed one hand at length and reaching back as he held her she thrust it over his shoulder.
"Now the other hand, please!" he said.
She did not know how she did it.