"Hallo," returned Edna rather dejectedly. "The girls say they are going to play with the dolls out in the summer house; I don't suppose you want to play with them."
"With dolls? Not I. If that's what they are going to do you and I can go down to the beach and build a sandcastle or go fishing or something."
"Oh, not fishing," replied Edna quickly. Her tender heart could never stand that. "I'd just as lief build castles though." She followed Louis down to the beach and for a while they played quite contentedly.
After a while Louis tired of castles and proposed that they go further along. "I know where there [80]is a cave," he said. "We can play at being robbers, or smugglers."
"How far is it?" asked Edna.
"Oh, not very far." Louis waved his hand toward the point which curved beyond them. "It's just down that way."
They set off together along the beach, but though they climbed over great boulders and scrambled around scraggy roots of trees the place was ever beyond them.
"I think it is awfully far," said Edna at last.
"Oh, it can't be far now; the boys told me it was this side of the point."
"Oh, but I thought you knew just where it was."