The sea does not look as though it would drown any one to-night, does it?
See!"-- and she threw a stone into it--"the ripples run as evenly as they do on a pond." She spoke idly and Geoffrey answered her idly, for they were not thinking of their words.

Rather were they thinking of the strange chance that had brought them together in an hour of deadly peril and now left them together in an hour of peace.

Perhaps, too, they were wondering to what end this had come about.

For, agnostics, atheists or believers, are we not, most of us, fatalists at heart?
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