You see," she added by way of an afterthought, "I thought that you were dead, and there is not much company in a corpse." "Well," he said, "one thing is, it would have been lonelier if we had gone." "Do you think so ?" she answered, looking at him inquiringly.

"I don't quite see how you make that out.

If you believe in what we have been taught, as I think you do, wherever it was you found yourself there would be plenty of company, and if, like me, you do not believe in anything, why, then, you would have slept, and sleep asks for nothing." "Did you believe in nothing when you lay upon the rock waiting to be drowned, Miss Granger ?" "Nothing!" she answered; "only weak people find revelation in the extremities of fear.

If revelation comes at all, surely it must be born in the heart and not in the senses.

I believed in nothing, and I dreaded nothing, except the agony of death.