'You see, because he couldn't find him alive is no reason for giving him up as dead; because his name wasn't to be found on any of the ships' books; so the captain thinks he must have been known by a different name to his real one.
Only he says he should like to have seen him to have thanked him; and he says he would give a deal to know what has become of him; and as I was staying two days at Mrs.Dawson's, I told them I must come over to Monkshaven, if only for five minutes, just to hear if your good husband was come home, and to shake his hands, that helped to save my own dear captain.' 'I don't think it could have been Philip,' reiterated Sylvia.
'Why not ?' asked her visitor; 'you say you don't know where he is; why mightn't he have been there where the captain says he was ?' 'But he wasn't a sailor, nor yet a soldier.' 'Oh! but he was.

I think somewhere the captain calls him a marine; that's neither one nor the other, but a little of both.

He'll be coming home some day soon; and then you'll see!' Alice Rose came in at this minute, and Mrs.Kinraid jumped to the conclusion that she was Sylvia's mother, and in her overflowing gratitude and friendliness to all the family of him who had 'saved the captain' she went forward, and shook the old woman's hand in that pleasant confiding way that wins all hearts.
'Here's your daughter, ma'am!' said she to the half-astonished, half-pleased Alice.

'I'm Mrs.Kinraid, the wife of the captain that used to be in these parts, and I'm come to bring her news of her husband, and she don't half believe me, though it's all to his credit, I'm sure.' Alice looked so perplexed that Sylvia felt herself bound to explain.
'She says he's either a soldier or a sailor, and a long way off at some place named in t' Bible.' 'Philip Hepburn led away to be a soldier!' said she, 'who had once been a Quaker ?' 'Yes, and a very brave one too, and one that it would do my heart good to look upon,' exclaimed Mrs.Kinraid.

'He's been saving my husband's life in the Holy Land, where Jerusalem is, you know.' 'Nay!' said Alice, a little scornfully.