His mind partook in some degree of the weakness of his body, and he was not strong enough yet to bear the shock of discovering the truth.
"She had been saved almost by a miracle.
"Released (in a state of insensibility) from the ruins of the house, she had been laid with her dead relatives awaiting burial.

Happily for her, an English traveler visiting the island was among the first men who volunteered to render help.

He had been in practice as a medical man, and he saved her from being buried alive.

Nearly a month passed before she was strong enough to bear removal to Wellington (the capital city) and to be received into the hospital.
"I asked why she had not telegraphed or written to me.
"'When I was strong enough to write,' she said, 'I was strong enough to bear the sea-voyage to England.

The expenses so nearly exhausted my small savings that I had no money to spare for the telegraph.' "On her arrival in London, only a few days since, she had called on me at the time when I had left home on the business which I have already mentioned.