Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers And Their World - Plot & Excerpts
René Harris called out as the Carpathia’s musicians gathered by the piano in the dining saloon. To May Futrelle, sitting beside her, it looked as if they were about to play a hymn. The musicians dispersed, but something that May found even more harrowing followed. An Episcopalian clergyman came into the dining saloon and read the service for the burial of the dead from the Book of Common Prayer. This was at the request of Captain Rostron, a prayerful man himself, who thought it would give comfort to the bereaved. But for May, “the shock and finality of it were awful.” The minister, Reverend Father Roger Anderson of Baltimore, finished with a prayer of thanksgiving for the living, many of whom were by then quietly weeping. Margaret Brown looked around the room at the survivors, “speechless, half-clad, their eyes protruding, hair streaming down, those who only twelve hours before, were immaculately groomed and richly gowned.”During the service, the Carpathia circled over the area where the Titanic had gone down.
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