"If you think it is so horrible what makes you stand and gaze at it?" asked Mary Lee.
"Because I can't help it," returned Jack transfixed.
"It's a place I'd like to come to every day," admitted Mary Lee. "Everything is so wonderfully arranged, and as Jack says you feel as if you were really in a room under the water. I love the living coral."
"And those creer, creer crabs are so interesting," put in Jean.
"Creer, creer crabs does sound rather interesting," said Mr. Kirk laughing.
"Did you ever see such wonderfully colored creatures as some of these are?" said Nan, peering through the glass into the watery home of some of the beautiful Mediterranean fish. "What's Jo doing, Carter?"
"She is amusing herself with the electric fish. She seems to find it more alluring than some of these beauties."
"Shocking!" exclaimed Nan, "though it's hard to shock Jo," she went on with an attempt at a pun.
Carter groaned. "If that's the way it's going to affect you we'd better get out as soon as possible."