Good gracious! What is this? As I am alive,
Why, it’s a man! I know it is!
(Steps hurriedly on rock as though going to plunge into sea.)
I’ll dive!
I won’t! (comes down) I will! (goes up) No!
(Hesitates.) Shall I? Will it bite?
It’s not a shark? (Goes up and peeps, comes back holding
hand to heart.) It’s put me in a fright.
Mona! you silly goose! This palpitation
Is strange perhaps, but not a bad sensation.