"Come Josephine.. in my flying machine..." Were Rose's only words, who was laying on a wooden door. She tried to sing, to stay aware, but it turned out to be difficult with the deathly cold. Her voice was now hoarse and hardly audible because of the cold. She tried to continue but a loud voice in the distance cut her.
"Can anybody hear me ?" Says the same voice.
"Jack ! Wake up, there is a boat!" Rose shook gently but firmly the now frozen hand of her beloved Jack. But he did not wake up. Tears began to flow on the icy cheeks of the young girl at the horrible thought passing in her mind.
"Jack... come back to me... Don't leave me alone... " She managed to say these few words in spite of her hardly audible sobs.
"Who s-said.. that I'd.. le-leave you al-alone...?" Jack managed to show his presence but he trembled a lot and had difficulty in expressing himself. It was clear that it was necessary to act fast otherwise they were going to die.
".. Jack? You are alive! But how..?"
"We.. have to let th-them know.. that we're.. al-alive.."
Rose looked around her. Except for deceased corpses of people and water, there was not much. But suddenly she saw an already dead officer with a siflet in his mouth. They had another hope to be saved!
"Jack.. You have to climb on it.. " She says, going to the water.
"B-but.. we'll never f-fit on together.." She was about to answer him but the lifeboat seemed to go further and further away.
"Climb Jack, I'll be back.. " She said as she helped him to climb on the wooden board. He said nothing more because he was being weaker as the minutes went by. Rose went away from the wooden fragment and swam towards the officer, in spite of the cold which seemed to stab her more and more hardly with every movement. She took the whistle off the mouth of him, and blew inside. The sound was heard by the crewmen of the lifeboat looking for survivors.
"Over here !" Shouted one of them.
When the boat had arrived where Jack and Rose were, they helped Rose to rise in the boat, giving her four very hot blankets. But Jack had become too weak to warn them that he too was still alive, then the crewmen left him for dead.
"Sir, this man is alive !" Said Rose to one of them.
"Sorry, miss, but I believe that he did not make it, he had already left this world" He answered her.
"I tell you that he is still alive ! You cannot leave him ! Take him on board please" Said Rose, with tears in her eyes. The crewmen did what she said and made Jack climb on board, covering him with at least five blankets. The two young lovers were exhausted, and fell asleep peacefully against each other.