"Oh, child, you came at last in your blue gown!"
"Why didn't you call to me?"
"I'd no breath. I was spent. And I knew you'd seen me and would do your best."
"I'll never forget that sight of you in the tree, with your old jersey and your hair as red as ever."
"I shall always see your free young figure standing on the high bank against the sky."
"Oh, I was desperate."
"I wondered what you'd do. I knew you'd do something."
"I thought I'd never get across the water."
"Do you know what I thought as I saw you coming so bravely and so badly? I thought, I'll teach her to swim one day. Shall I, child?"
"I can't swim without you, my boy," she whispered.