Together they climbed up on to a rocky headland, where the flag was flying, and looked out across the troubled ocean.

There was nothing in sight so far as the eye could see--nothing but the white wave-horses across which the black cormorants steered their swift, unerring flight.

She looked and looked till her heart sank within her.
"Will Mummy soon come in a boat to take Dick away ?" asked the child at her side, and then she burst into tears.
When she had recovered herself they set to collecting eggs, an occupation which, notwithstanding the screams and threatened attacks of the birds, delighted Dick greatly.

Soon they had as many as she could carry; so they went back to the hut and lit a fire of drift-wood, and roasted some eggs in the hot ashes; she had no pot to boil them in.

Thus, one way and another the day wore away, and at last the darkness began to fall over the rugged peaks behind and the wild wilderness of sea before.