From that time until the lunch bell rang, Nancy could not entirely fight down her feelings.
“I don’t have to be treated this way,” she decided, “I can go to Manny at any time. Manny made me promise I would, if I were not happy here.”
But, when Rosa came back just in time for lunch, and made her take a pretty new fan she had bought for the evening’s dance, reasonably, Nancy had to excuse her.
The postponed swim was taken in the afternoon, Rosa going out to the big rock and perching herself like a nice, fat bird upon it, while Nancy spent most of her time practising diving from the long dock.
All along the banks of the summer colony young folks were enjoying the water sports, and Nancy quite forgot her new anxieties as she too indulged in the pleasant aquatic exercise.
Just once Rosa became confidential. She asked Nancy if she knew anything about reducing systems.
“Why?” laughed Nancy. “You are not going to try one, I hope.”
“One!” exclaimed Rosa. “I’ve tried dozens of them. Want to see me do the twelve-pound roll?” and without waiting for any encouragement Rosa raced out of the water, ran up the little sandy road that led from a hill down to the water’s edge, and then proceeded to roll!
“Oh, don’t, Rosa!” yelled Nancy. “You might strike a rock!”
But Rosa was rolling on.