He thought he heard her voice faintly, and he entered.

She lay there as he had placed her.

He knelt beside her, and was appalled at the change in her appearance.
The poor girl's system had received a shock for which it was unprepared.
Her severe sufferings at sea had, strange to say, reduced her in appearance less than could have been believed; for her physical endurance proved greater than that of the strong men around her.

But the food which the island supplied was not suited to restore her strength, and the nervous shock to which she had been subjected was followed by complete prostration.
Hazel took her unresisting hand, which he would have given a world to press.

He felt her pulse; it was weak, but slow.