'It's not her--it's him as saved her as needs yo', if iver husband needed a wife.' 'He ?--who?
O Philip! Philip! is it yo' at last ?' Unheeding what spectators might see her movements, she threw up her arms and staggered against the parapet of the bridge they were then crossing.
'He!--Philip!--saved Bella?
Bella, our little Bella, as got her dinner by my side, and went out wi' Jeremiah, as well as could be.

I cannot take it in; tell me, Kester.' She kept trembling so much in voice and in body, that he saw she could not stir without danger of falling until she was calmed; as it was, her eyes became filmy from time to time, and she drew her breath in great heavy pants, leaning all the while against the wall of the bridge.
'It were no illness,' Kester began.

'T' little un had gone for a walk wi' Jeremiah Foster, an' he were drawn for to go round t' edge o' t' cliff, wheere they's makin' t' new walk reet o'er t' sea.

But it's but a bit on a pathway now; an' t' one was too oud, an' t' other too young for t' see t' water comin' along wi' great leaps; it's allays for comin' high up again' t' cliff, an' this spring-tide it's comin' in i' terrible big waves.

Some one said as they passed t' man a-sittin' on a bit on a rock up above--a dunnot know, a only know as a heared a great fearful screech i' t' air.