YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW I THANK GOD YOU ARE ALIVE'"] "I prayed for hours, it seemed, after we were dashed upon this shore, that you might live and that I might die.

The knowledge that you saved me through mistake, that you were battling so long and so bravely all through the night for the one you cherished more than all in the world, made me pray from the first that I could be dead before you discovered the horrid error.

You picked me up when the crash came and I was too terrified to even think of crying aloud in protest.

Then we were in that awful, awful water.

It was not until hours afterward that I felt we might escape find that I should have to face your grief." He reached up and clasped her hand.
"Don't--don't talk like that now," he groaned.