If the sea spares you, begin life afresh.

If it spares you not, maybe it is well.

No others shall be beguiled by that fair face of yours.

The Norns heed not the faces of men." He pauses; but the girl stands silent, hand locked in hand, and with no change of face.

Nor does she look at her accuser, but gazes steadily out to the still sea, which seems endless, for there is no line between sea and sky in the hot haze.