Yet there was the yacht, not a mile off, to prove to them that something very extraordinary had, in fact, happened.

The yacht was no vision, nor was that sinister watching figure at its stern a vision, either.
'I suppose Jules was too surprised and too feeble to inquire how I came to be on board his yacht,' said the Prince, taking the oars.
'Oh! How did you ?' asked Nella, her face lighting up.

'Really, I had almost forgotten that part of the affair.' 'I must begin at the beginning and it will take some time,' answered the Prince.

'Had we not better postpone the recital till we get ashore ?' 'I will row and you shall talk,' said Nella.

'I want to know now.' He smiled happily at her, but gently declined to yield up the oars.
'Is it not sufficient that I am here ?' he said.
'It is sufficient, yes,' she replied, 'but I want to know.' With a long, easy stroke he was pulling the dinghy shorewards.