"They'll not trouble you now. What else can I do?"
"God bless you for doing what you've done! I'm a fool girl, and I thought I was all alone and I went in swimming, and they came and I hid on the island. And I—I haven't got my things with me!"
"Couldn't you get ashore without being seen? These beasts won't look. And I won't look. You can trust me, can't you?"
"When you tell me that nobody is looking I'll come ashore."
"Nobody is looking now."
He heard a splash and sounds as of strong swimming. And he was dying to look. He took out his little automatic and cocked it, and he said to himself: "If you do look, Bob, you get shot."
Ten minutes passed.
"Are you all right?" he called.
"Yes, thank you, all right now. But how can I thank you? I don't want you to see me, if you don't mind. I don't want you to know who I am. But I'm the gratefulest girl that ever lived; and I'm going home now, wiser than when I came, and, listen——"