"What—the town, or the people, or the sea?"
"Everything. I've scarcely been to the seaside before in all my life, and I think it's lovely."
"The sea would be splendid if one could see it, but it blinds one even to glance at it in this heat."
"You shall have half my sunshade." She put it over him with a protective gesture.
"No, no," he demurred.
"I say yes. Why don't men carry sunshades? It's only their pride that stops them.... So you don't like the town and the people?"
"Well—"
"I love to see plenty of people about. And you would, too, if you'd been fixed like me. I've never seen a real crowd. There are crushes when you go into theatres, sometimes, aren't there?"
"Yes. Women faint."