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 --]