Plunging into the water again, he searched for Camille in places where he knew he was not to be found, and returned in tears, wringing his hands, and tearing his hair, while the boating party did their best to calm and console him.
"It is all my fault," he exclaimed.

"I ought never to have allowed that poor fellow to dance and move about as he did.

At a certain moment we all three found ourselves on one side of the boat, and we capsized.

As we fell into the water, he shouted out to me to save his wife." In accordance with what usually happens under similar circumstances, three or four young fellows among the boating party, maintained that they had witnessed the accident.
"We saw you well enough," said they.

"And, then, hang it all, a boat is not so firm as a dancing floor.