"Shouldn't think she'd walk anyhow," the older ambulance man observed. "Expensive," he added, as they seemed to question him.
They considered the body for a moment in silence. Yes, the ambulance man was right; it was a body expensively cared for.
"And where are her clothes, anyhow?"
The sergeant was worried.
Potticary explained his theory about the clothes; that she had left them below high-water mark and that they were now somewhere at sea.
"Yes, that's possible," said the sergeant.
"But how did she get here?"
"Funny she should be bathing alone, isn't it?" ventured the young ambulance man, trying out his stomach.
"Nothing's funny, nowadays," Bill rumbled. "It's a wonder she wasn't playing jumping off the cliff with a glider. Swimming on an empty stomach, all alone, is just too ordinary. The young fools make me tired."
"Is that a bracelet around her ankle, or what?" the constable asked.