Are you so particularly anxious to get quit of this world ?" "Drown myself ?" she returned scornfully.

"How could I--when the sea doesn't come up within a dozen yards of the cliff except at spring tide ?" "And I suppose it hadn't occurred to you that this is a spring tide ?" he said drily.

"In another hour or so there'll be six feet of water where we're standing now." The abrupt realisation that once again she had escaped death by so narrow a margin shook her for a moment, and she swayed a little where she stood, while her face went suddenly very white.
In an instant his arm was round her, supporting her.

"I oughtn't to have told you," he said hastily.

"Forgive me.