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In a ain, and he

i in deep water She was used to his nakedness, and

to her ing to each other, and e blow that had been struck at theain with her froth, as he leapt, once, she dropped

forward on to his head, and nearly broke his neck, so that they

fell into the water in a heap, and fought for a few moments with

death He saved her, and sat on the bank, quivering But his

eyes were full of the blackness of death It was as if death had

cut between their two lives, and separated them

Still they were not separate There was this curious taunting

intio in

the swing-boats He took her, and, standing up in the boat,

holding on to the irons, began to drive higher, perilously

higher The child clung fast on her seat

"Do you want to go any higher?" he said to her, and she

laughed with her h the air

"Yes," she said, feeling as if she would turn into vapour,

lose hold of everything, andfar up,

then down like a stone, only to be caught sickeningly up