That was all there was to the affair.

They never raised the ship, and in a little while it was all forgotten.
"But I never forgot it, and I always remembered her, way down there in all that still green water, waiting there in that little state-room for me to come back and open the door.

And I've growed to be an old man remembering her; but she's always stayed just as she was the first day I saw her, when she came toward me smiling and holding out her arms.
She's always stayed young and fresh and pretty.

I never saw her but that once.

Only afterward I got her picture from a native woman of Trincomalee who was house-keeper at the Residency where the governor of the island lived.