Robin and Tony made but a brief stay in the water--the former curtailing
the proceedings because he very much preferred the idea of keeping Mrs.
Hilyard company where she sat in a fold of the rocks. Meanwhile Ann's gaze
was riveted enviously on Forrester's sleek red head as it appeared and
disappeared with the rise and fall of the swelling sea. He looked as if he
were thoroughly enjoying the buffeting he was getting.
"I should like to go in--just for a few minutes," she said discontentedly.
There are few things that draw the genuine sea-lover more strongly than the
longing to plunge into the tantalising, gleaming water and feel the rush
and prick of it and its buoyancy beneath one's limbs.
Cara looked up in dismay.
"You're not thinking of going, after all?" she exclaimed. "Oh, don't,
Ann!"--urgently. "It's really too risky to-day. If one of those big
breakers knocked you down you wouldn't have time to get up again before
another came. I once saw a woman drowned just in that way. It was horrible.
She was flung down by a huge breaker, and before she could pick herself up
a second wave broke over her. She had no chance to get her breath. And
there wasn't any one near enough to help her.
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