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There was something spirit-like about her, wrapped in her long cloak, as she walked through the half-darkness to meet George Morris. "I was just going to send for you," he said. "I did not sleep any," was the answer, "and the moment the engine stopped I knew we were there. Shall we go on deck?" "Yes," he said, "but come away from the crowd," and with that he led her towards the stern of the boat.
It was really necessary to have a light in order to see what she was about, but a lamp or candle, either one, seemed out of place. There should be only enough light to see the expression on the face of the image. In a half-darkness, she thought, he would be more likely to speak. She raised the window shades and threw the shutters open.
But that may have been the red glow of a dying fire in the half-light, or half-darkness, striking his face as he rested his elbow on the chimney-piece, while its hand wandered from his brow to his chin, expressing irresolute perplexity. Until, as she sat silent, as though satisfied that he could have now no doubt about her wishes, he spoke again, abruptly.
Lanterns, prepared for this emergency, flashed here and there. Chester obtained one and placed it on the table of the smoking room. Presently the stewards could be heard running about the ship saying: "Ready for the boats, ready for the boats Everybody on the boat deck!" The frightened passengers crowded up the steps in the half-darkness, the gleam of lanterns showing the way.
You've had a very pleasant evening, no doubt; it's all right for you to feel you've got me, as you know you have and with no fear, no danger. Yes, you enjoy it! 'Oh, Aylmer! He saw in the half-darkness that her eyes looked reproachful. 'I didn't mean it. I'm sorry I'm always being sorry. His bitter tone changed to gentleness. 'I want to speak to you now, Edith. We haven't much time.
Noel was trying hard, as they stood thus alone in the stillness and half-darkness, to gather up his suddenly-weakened forces, so that he might tell her, in the hope of giving her comfort, of the resolute purpose he had entered into. But in the moment which he gave himself to make this rally a sudden influence came over him from the contact of the cold hands he held in his.
The place, plunged in a half-darkness, seemed filled with dust and flying fragments, and people hurrying backward and forward, scarcely knowing what had happened or what had been the extent of the accident. Stafford's voice was the first to bring reassurance to the startled crowd. "It's all right!" he shouted. "We are both safe, thank God!"
As he saw in the half-darkness the outlines of the delicately pure profile, framed in grey bands of hair covering the ears as it had been worn when Mrs. Elwyn was a girl upwards of forty years ago, he felt stirred with an unwonted tenderness, added to the respect with which he habitually regarded her. Since leaving Cavendish Square they had scarcely spoken the one to the other.
At the edge of the scrimmage I dragged out two women who had been knocked off their feet and who were in danger of being trampled. But neither was the woman I sought. In the half-darkness I saw one of the immigrants, a girl with a 'kerchief on her head, struggling with her life-belt. A stoker, as he raced past, seized it and made for the rail.
At the third verse he started up, and an eager, sun-burned face peered from the half-darkness at the singer. The Honourable was sitting in the shadow, with his back to the new actor in the scene. "For it's rest when the gallop is over, my men I And it's here's to the lads that have ridden their last! And it's here's " Shon paused.
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