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Updated: June 8, 2025
"There is a pie and a ham, and I made bread and gâche to-day," said Aunt Jeanne, picking up a big basket and beginning to pack it with all she could think of and lay hands on. "Water?" asked Carette. "Plenty of water, both salt and fresh," said Uncle George. "All the same, a can of milk won't hurt," said Aunt Jeanne. "Carette, ma fille, fill the biggest you can find."
But" and her face saddened "you do not know what has befallen them." "Helier feared they were wiped out." "Almost. Monsieur Le Marchant and Martin, the eldest boy, got home sorely wounded. They are still there on Brecqhou, and Carette is nursing them back to life.
Did you ever know me strike a foul blow, Carette?" I asked hotly. "No, never! I was wrong, Phil. Let us ride again and forget the heads tumbling into the baskets and those horrid women knitting and singing." So we climbed the rocky way, and then I got Gray Robin alongside a rock, and we mounted without much loss and went our way down the lanes in somewhat better case.
And all these things I used to turn over and over in my heart during the sultry night-watches in the West Indies, when the heat lightnings gleamed incessantly all round the horizon, and it was too hot to sleep even when off duty; and during the grimmer watches round about Newfoundland, with the fog as thick as wool inside and outside one, and the smell of the floating bergs in the air; and most of all when we were plunging homeward as fast as we could make it, and the call of Carette drew my heart faster than my body, till my body fairly ached for sight and sound of her.
He's a treacherous devil. I'm not sure he hadn't a hand in our trouble also." "If he had any end to serve I could believe it of him." "But what end?" "Young Torode wants Carette." He laughed as though he deemed my horizon bounded by Carette, as indeed it was. "No need for him to make away with the whole of her family in order to get her," he said. "It would not commend him to her."
"All the same, he is a fine man, your grandfather, and a seaman beyond most. You will follow the sea? or are you for the farming?" "The sea sure, but it will be in the trading, I expect." "It is larger than the farming, but not very large after all." "When will I be able to see Carette, m'sieur?" "Not for ten days or so. As soon as she is well enough I shall carry her over to Mistress Falla's.
And my very vivid recollection of all those times is this that Carette grew more beautiful each time I saw her, both in mind and body; that my feeling for her grew in me beyond all other growth, though the years were building me solidly; and that a fear sprang up in me at last that she was perhaps going to grow out of my reach, as she certainly was growing out of my understanding.
But no sound came, and we picked up our can and went on. "I do wish I knew if it is to-day or to-morrow," said Carette. "Without doubt it is to-day." "I don't believe it, Phil. It's either to-morrow or the day after, or the day after that." "But that milk would never have kept sweet." "It would keep sweet a very long time here. The air is so fresh and cool."
Then to dancing again, and it was only then, as I leaned against the door-post watching Carette go round and round with young Torode, in a way that I could not help but feel was smoother and neater than when my arm was round her, that a chance word between two girls sitting near me startled me into the knowledge that I had been guilty of another foolishness, and had overlooked another most important matter that night.
She had braced her heart to it, as the women of those days had to do, and as all women of all times must whose men go down to the sea in ships. And I do not think there was any resentment in her mind at my feeling for Carette. For she spoke of her many times and always in the nicest way, seeing perhaps the pleasure it gave me.
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