She put up her right hand to shade the too vivid reflection of the glistening sea, and was astounded to find that in a few minutes the back of her hand was scorched.

A faint sound of distant shouting disturbed her painful reverie.
"How is it," she asked, "that we feel the heat so much today?
I have hardly noticed it before." "For two good reasons--forced idleness and radiation from this confounded rock.

Moreover, this is the hottest day we have experienced on the island.

There is not a breath of air, and the hot weather has just commenced." "Don't you think," she said, huskily, "that our position here is quite hopeless ?" They were talking to each other sideways.

The sailor never turned his gaze from the southern end of the valley.
"It is no more hopeless now than last night or this morning," he replied.
"But suppose we are kept here for several days ?" "That was always an unpleasant probability." "We had water then.