"Thank God!" muttered Dr. Atherton.
We lay down in our narrow berths still comforted, and slept like tops all night. I'm not sure that the doctor hadn't given us something to make us sleep when he gave us a drink, as he innocently said, "to settle and soothe our nerves."
"Thud! thud! thud!" The ominous sound was in my ears the moment I opened my eyes, and all the terror of the preceding day came crowding into my mind.
"Sara, are you awake?"
"Yes, Sylvia."
"Did you sleep?"
"Like a top."
"So did I."
Yes, we had slept, and while we slept the sailors had worked all night. And all night long, like some poor haunted thing, the May Queen had glided on.
"Mr. Wheeler, has the water lessened in the well?"