We are more than quits, dear heart, when we strike a balance of mutual service.

We are bound by a tie of comradeship that is denied to most.
And who shall sever it?
The man who gains three times the worth of his ship by reason of the very dangers we have shared! To state such a mad proposition is to answer it.

Who is he that he should sunder those whom God has joined together?
And what other man and woman now breathing can lay better claim than we to have been joined by the Almighty ?" The strange exigencies of their lives during the past two days had ordained that this should be Philip's first avowal of his feelings.
Under the stress of overpowering impulse he had clasped Iris to his heart when they were parting on the island.

In obedience to a stronger law than any hitherto revealed to her innocent consciousness the girl had flown to his arms when he came to the hut.

And that was all their love-making, two blissful moments of delirium wrenched from a time of a gaunt tragedy, and followed by a few hours of self-negation.