How are you now ?" "Oh, better--better," said Mike eagerly.
"Breathe again." "Yes, yes; I am breathing better and better.

Then the air is coming now ?" "Yes," said Vince drily; "the air is coming fast, and the light can't be very long.

There--it's all right, Ladle; we shan't hurt now.

But I don't know how we're going to manage when the tide falls, for we shan't dare to go out." "No," said Mike, whose spirits sank again at these words, "we shan't dare to go out.

Do you know, I wish, as you did, that we had stopped on board." "And not taken all this trouble for nothing.