d him, revived him; but there were moments when
the remembrance of what I had seen troubled me in secret, and when I
asked myself if I really possessed my husband's full confidence as he
possessed mine.

We left the train at Ramsgate.

The favorite watering-place was empty; the season was just over. Our
arrangements for the wedding tour included a cruise to the Mediterranean
in a yacht lent to Eustace by a friend. We were both fond of the sea,
and we were equally desirous, considering the circumstances under which
we had married, of escaping the notice of friends and acquaintances.
With this object in view, having celebrated our marriage privately in
London, we had decided on instructing the sailing-master of the yacht to
join us at Ramsgate. At this port (when the season for visitors was at
an end) we could embark far more privately than at the popular yachting
stations situated in the Isle of Wight.

Three days passed--days of delicious solitude, of exquisite happiness,
never to be forgotten, never to be lived over again, to the end of our
lives!

Early on the morning of the fourth day, just before sunrise, a trifling
incident happened, which was noticeable, nevertheless, as being strange
to me in my experience of myself.

I awoke, suddenly and unaccountably, from a deep and dreamless sleep
with an all-pervading sensation of nervous uneasiness which I had never
felt before. In the old days at the Vicarage my capacity as a sound
sleeper had been the subject of many a little harmless joke. From the
moment when my head was on the pillow I had never known what it was to
awake until the maid knocked at my door. At all seasons and times the
long and uninterrupted repose of a child was the repose that I enjoyed.

And now I had awakened, without any assignable cause, hours before my
usual time. I tried to compose myself to sleep again. The effort was
useless. Such a restlessness possessed me that I was not even able to
lie still in the bed. My husband was sleeping soundly by my side. In the
fear of disturbing him I rose, and put on my dressing-gown and slippers.

I went to the window. The sun was just rising over the calm gray sea.
For a while the majestic spectacle before me exercised a tranquilizing
influence on the irritable condition of my nerves. But ere long the old
restlessness returned upon me. I walked slowly to and fro in the room,
until I was weary of the monotony of the exercise. I took up a book, and
laid