He gave a meaning smile.

The poor girl looked quite perplexed.

Suddenly she gave a violent start.
"Christie! where is Christie ?" had cried a well-known voice.

He had learned on the pier who had saved him--he had slipped up among the boats to find her--he could not find his hat--he could not wait for it--his dripping hair showed where he had been--it was her love whom she had just saved out of Death's very jaws.
She gave a cry of love that went through every heart, high or low, young or old, that heard it.

And she went to him, through the air it seemed; but, quick as she was, another was as quick; the mother had seen him first, and she was there.