LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[ Their boat had sailed]
[ "Well, did you ever! Where did you come from?"]
[ Her hair, still damp, was hanging about her shoulders, and she carried a bundle of bath-towels under her arm]
[ "Mr. Hascombe!" she demanded breathlessly, "you'll take me out in the surf-boat, won't you?"]
[ At a break-neck speed towards the wharf]
[ "I don't know what makes me so everlastingly silly!" she said fiercely trying to swallow the rising sobs, "but he won't understand!"]
[ "I like the way your mouth looks when you read it"]
[ "Roberta!" he called sternly. "What are you doing out here?"]
[ "You will have to join the crowd," suggested Bobby when Percival complained of not seeing her as often as he wished]
[ "If you want to hold my hand, Mr. Hascombe, you are welcome to it"]
[ He sat on a table swinging his feet in unison with a lot of other young feet, while he sipped lemonade from the same glass as Bobby Boynton]
[ "Isn't that the prettiest thing you ever saw?" she asked, glancing at him over her shoulder]
[ "It's quite worth while," he said, "getting a jab in the wrist, to have you looking after me like this"]
[ "I'm so sorry!" whispered Bobby, putting her arm impulsively around his heaving shoulders]
[!-- H2 anchor --]