Love you!' They were sitting together on a large spar which was lashed on to the deck, and which had served throughout all the voyage for a seat for second-class passengers There were others now on the farther end of it; but there was a feeling that when Caldigate and Mrs.Smith were together it would not be civil to intrude upon their privacy.

At this time it was dark; but their eyes had become used to the gloom, and each could see the other's face.

'Love you!' she repeated, looking up at him, speaking in a very low voice, but yet, oh so clearly, so that not a fraction of a sound was lost to his ears, with no special emotion in her face, with no contortion, no grimace, but with her eyes fixed upon his.

'How should it be possible that I should not love you?
For two months we have been together as people seldom are in the world,--as they never can be without hating each other or loving each other thoroughly.

You have been very good to me who am all alone and desolate.