The storm all this time was rapidly abating.

In half an hour the wind had fallen to a breeze, and the change was accompanied or caused by a heavy, cold, and plumping rain.

I must then have fallen asleep, and when I came to myself, drenched, stiff, and unrefreshed, day had already broken, grey, wet, discomfortable day; the wind blew in faint and shifting capfuls, the tide was out, the Roost was at its lowest, and only the strong beating surf round all the coasts of Aros remained to witness of the furies of the night..