She told Arnott of the difficulty, and held up the amazing garment of navy alpaca and white braid for his inspection.
“It is so pretty,” she said. “And she looked at it as though it were indecent.”
He laughed.
“As a sex you are all more or less mock modest,” he announced. “You will half undress of an evening, and blush to be discovered in a perfectly decorous petticoat. Pack the thing in with your own clothes, and I’ll undertake to state when she sees every one else in the water she will yearn to get in too. We will cure her of her distaste for salt water.”
And so the bathing dress went to Muizenberg in Pamela’s trunk.
Chapter Fifteen.
With their arrival in Muizenberg Pamela took entirely upon herself the care of the children. She informed Miss Maitland that she was to regard her stay there in the light of a holiday; she was to go and come as she chose, and leave the children with her.
“But that won’t be any holiday for you,” objected Blanche.