She let her hand rest between his. At first he could not make out what her slightly moving lips uttered, and bending nearer he heard her murmur: "Beside the still waters." The sea had become as calm as a pond.
And now the transport was losing headway, scarcely moving at all. Forward and aft the gun-crews, no longer alert, lounged lazily in the sunshine watching a boat being loaded and swung outward from the davits.
"Is somebody going ashore?" asked McKay.
"We are," said the girl.
"Just you and I, Eve?"
"Just you and I."
Then he saw their luggage piled in the lifeboat.'
"This is wonderful," he said. "I have a house a few miles inland from Strathlone Head."
"Will you take me there, Kay?"
Such a sense of delight possessed him that he could not speak.