[ XVI IN PORT ]

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?"]