This he repeated until he perceived her breathing became less painful and more rapid.

Then he raised her a little, and her head rested upon his arm.

When they reached the entrance of the bay he was obliged to pass it, for, the wind being still southerly, he could not enter by the north gate, but came round and ran in by the western passage, the same by which they had left the same morning.
Hazel bent over Helen, and whispered tenderly that they were at home.

She answered by a sob.

In half an hour the keel grated on the sand near the boat-house.