day on the slopes when I tore myself from her little clinging arms:
'Gethin! Gethin! come back!' was plain in my ears.

"I looked round me quite moidered. Lots of Bella's friends were there,
and lots of mine; but I could not stop. I stood up, determined to go
out, whatever the others might think of me, for all the time Morva's
voice was in my ears calling 'Gethin! Gethin!'

"'I am going,' said I to Bella; 'somebody is calling me.' And there,
close to me, who should I see but Ben Barlow sitting alone. I pushed
the play bill in his hand. 'Look after Bella,' I said; 'I am going,'
and I went towards the door. I could hear Bella's friends laughing and
shouting, and the last thing I heard as I went out was a shower of bad
names and foul words that Bella was flinging after me.

"The tide is nearly full, I see; she'll be starting directly, but I
have almost told you everything now.

"I shipped for another long voyage after that, and only now I have come
back; but indeed, Sara fâch, whether 'twas a dream or vision, or what,
I don't know, but never, in storms or wrecks or fine weather, on land
or sea, will I forget the strong hand that laid hold of me that night,
and turned my face away from the music, the lights, the sin and the
folly of the town. I have told thee all, Sarah fâch. Wilt still be my
friend?"

"For ever, 'machgen i!"

"Then it is to the old country I'm going, Sara, back to the sea wind,
the song of the lark, and the call of the seagulls on the bay. I'll be