There I found my travel blanket and my fur coat, left on my lounge chair.

They were to miraculously preserve me as revealed later.

We felt beneath our feet the deck lean towards the depths.

I went back belowdecks to retrieve the jewels of Mrs. Stone [but] fortunately, I choose the wrong stairwell and returned to the deck halfway there.

Fortunately for me, for I would have never come back up again.

At this moment we witnessed unforgettable scenes where horror mixed with the most sublime heroism.
Women, still in evening gowns, some just out of bed, barely clothed, disheveled, distraught, scrambled for the boats.

Commander Smith yelled, “Women and children first”.

Firm and calm, in the throng, officers and sailors were taking the women and children by the arm and directing them towards the lifeboats.