"We have not finished our conversation.
"We have!" said she, with sudden decision.

"Go--go--for my sake--for your own sake--go at once!" She gave me her hand.

I merely clasped it.

And so I left her at the rail-ah, heaven! how often we had argued on that very spot! So I left her, with the greatest effort of all my life (but one); and yet in passing, full as my heart was of love and self, I could not but lay a hand on poor Ready's shoulders.
"God bless you, old boy!" I said to him.
He turned a white face that gave me half an instant's pause.
"It's all over with me this time," he said.

"But, I say, I was right about the cargo ?" And I heard a chuckle as I reached the ladder; but Ready was no longer in my mind; even Eva was driven out of it, as I stood aghast on the top-most rung..