"I have not yet found a single creature that preys upon them."
"Isn't it a very arduous and difficult task to watch these thousands of little caterpillars all day long?"
"It is quite impossible for me to do it thoroughly all alone."
"Would you like to have me help you?" she asked innocently.
Which rather bowled him over, but he said:
"I'd b-b-be d-d-delighted—only you haven't time, have you?"
"I have three days. I've brought a tent, you see, and everything necessary—rugs, magazines, blankets, toilet articles, bon-bons, books—everything,[39] in fact, to last three days.... I wonder how that tent is put up. Do you know?"
He went over to the canoe and gazed at the tent.
"I think I could pitch it for you," he said.
"Oh, thanks so much! May I help you? I think I'll put it here on this pretty stretch of white sand by the water's edge."