“Then I shall carry you.”
“Then I shall kick!”
“Egad!” he exclaimed; “I believe you would!”
“I’ faith, sir,” she nodded, “I vow I should!”
Here, meeting each other’s glance, they laughed; then he was beside her and had caught her hand.
“Rose child, if I begged you to leave the deck——”
“’Twould be of none avail!” she answered, her eyes very bright. “This is life!”
“And in the midst of life we are in death!” he retorted.
“Then if death come I prefer to die here in the sun and wind.”
“Ha’ you no fear, child?”