"You never look so happy as when you are," he said.
"Oh, these are happy days!" said Julie. "I wish they could last forever. Just resting and playing—wouldn't you like a year of it, Jim?"
The doctor eyed her quietly.
"I don't know that I would," he said seriously, impersonally.
There was a little silence. Then the girl began to pin up her braids with fingers that trembled a little.
"Ann's waving!" she said presently, and the doctor caught up her scarlet cap to signal back to the far blur on the beach that was Ann. He watched the tiny distant groups a moment.
"Here comes your admirer!" said he.
"Where?" Julie was ready at once to slip into the water.
"Oh—finish your hair—take your time! She's just in the breakers. We'll be off long before she gets here."
"That reminds me, Jim," Miss Ives was quite herself again, "that when I was in the bath-house a few moments ago your Dancing Girl and that pretty little girl who is visiting her came into the next room. You know how flimsy the walls are? I could hear every word they said."