Before that I was alone, and was frightened because I could not in the least understand why I was being held a prisoner, or what my fate was to be.

Now all I must meet is the danger of the sea, with you to share the peril with me." "But you are very tired ?" "Perhaps so, yet I have not thought about that.

There are other things; you do not believe in me." "Why say that ?" he asked, in astonishment.

"There is no question of the kind between us now." "Truly, is there not?
There has been, however; I know from the way you spoke.

What was it you believed of me--that--that I was part of this conspiracy ?" "I do not know what I believed, if I actually believed anything, Miss Natalie," he explained rather lamely.