She had brought her boat to a place of safety.

She seemed to gather life and strength from the sun; although it still lay below the blue horizon of lake and forest which she had left behind her, the sky above was a gulf of sunshine.
She stepped out of the boat and pushed away the hat to look in her father's face.

She saw now who it was that she had rescued.

Toyner stirred a little when she touched him, and opened his eyes, the same grave grey eyes with which he had looked at her when he bade her good-bye.

There was no fever in them, and, as it seemed to her, no lack of sense and thought.