From Out the Vast Deep

Excerpt:'As I looked down, ma'am, I had an awful turn. There seemed to me to be something floating about in the water, a little narrow thing like a child's body and and all on a sudden a small white face seemed to look up into mine! Oh, it was 'orrible!' Pegler did not often drop an aitch, but when she did so forget herself, she did it thoroughly. 'As I went on looking, fascinated-like' she was speaking very slowly now 'whatever was down there seemed to melt away.'