I will swim across and help you if you are afraid.

But wait--wait just a few moments more!" She did not urge him.

Her surrender had been too complete.

Perhaps his promise reassured her, or perhaps she did not fully realise the danger.
She waited motionless and the man worked on.
Again there came that sound that was like the report of a distant gun, and the roaring of the sea swelled to tumult.
"Don't move! Don't move!" he cried again.
But she could not have heard him in the overwhelming rush of the sea.
There came a sudden dimness.

A cloud had drifted over the moon, and Knight looked up and cursed it with furious impatience.