She was perforce compelled to sink back to the support of his knee and arm.
"Do you think you could lie quiet until I try to find some water ?" he gasped anxiously.
She nodded a childlike acquiescence, and her eyelids fell.

It was only that her eyes smarted dreadfully from the salt water, but the sailor was sure that this was a premonition of a lapse to unconsciousness.
"Please try not to faint again," he said.

"Don't you think I had better loosen these things?
You can breathe more easily." A ghost of a smile flickered on her lips.

"No--no," she murmured.

"My eyes hurt me--that is all.