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Since morning the _Jeune-Adolphine_ had been in the Channel. It was her last night at sea, for the next day at the evening tide she ought to be fast at the quay at Dieppe, whither she was bound to sell her fish.
Elise had been ordered to the helm during the second watch. Silvere had wanted to take her place. Since she had been so unhappy he had become more attentive, had spared her fatigue, had watched over her, and had anticipated her wants. Alas! she had no wants. She was wrapt in an indifference born of grief. He did not leave her; he comforted her by his affectionate glances and by that silent sympathy of which delicate natures know the secret.