‘What!’ repeated the girl. ‘Look before you, lady. Look at that dark water. How many times do you read of such as I who spring into the tide, and leave no living thing, to care for, or bewail them. It may be years hence, or it may be only months, but I shall come to that at last.’
- Suicide & Infantcide
The lure of a watery death seems irresistible to fictionalised ‘fallen women’.
