Or perhaps we might get to the Bay and find a ship to take us anywhere from this horrible place.

If you could come, the natives would guide you to where we are.
"But it is too much to hope that you will come, or that if you do come you will find us still alive.
"Allan, my dearest, I have one more thing to say, though I must say it shortly, for the paper is nearly finished.

I do not know, supposing that you are alive and well, whether you still care for me, who left you so long ago--it seems years and years--but _my_ heart is where it was, and where I promised it should remain, in your keeping.

Of course, Hernan has pressed me to marry him, and my father has wished it.

But I have always said no, and now, in our wretchedness, there is no more talk of marriage at present, which is the one good thing that has happened to me.