CHAPTER XIV

The problem was almost a madness for Dimny. It was deeper and wider than the sea; it offered foothold nowhere, there were gulfs of horror everywhere. As she leaned against the rail the deck seemed to thrust her forward into the ocean. The waves summoned her, demanded her, one after another, each charging the ship and snarling as it failed. Yet always out of the illimitable came new waves. She grew dizzy and felt a mystic compulsion to fling herself over and solve at least her own riddle. Hands seemed to press her s…