When all is said and done, things might be far worse than they are." Never before had his tone been so cold, his manner so abrupt, not even in the old days when he purposely endeavored to make her dislike him.
She walked along the ledge and timidly bent over him.
"Forgive me!" she whispered; "I did forget for the moment, not only the goodness of Providence, but also your self-sacrificing devotion.

I am only a woman, and I don't want to die yet, but I will not live unless you too are saved." Once already that day she had expressed this thought in other words.
Was some shadowy design flitting through her brain?
Suppose they were faced with the alternatives of dying from thirst or yielding to the Dyaks.

Was there another way out?
Jenks shivered, though the rock was grilling him.

He must divert her mind from this dreadful brooding.
"The fact is," he said with a feeble attempt at cheerfulness, "we are both hungry and consequently grumpy.

Now, suppose you prepare lunch.