Then he saw his wife.

"Save me, Tennys; we are lost! We are lost!" A great wave swept over the deck, washing all of them back into the companionway, half drowned.
"Is there any hope, Mr.Frayne ?" yelled Hugh to the second officer, holding himself and his half-dead sweetheart against the leaping of the boat.
"One chance in a million! Stay back there and we'll try the boats.

God knows they can't live in this sea, but they're the only hope.

We'll turn clear over with the next big wave.

Stay back!" he yelled.