her, or something?"

I broke off and looked at her.

"Go on," she said."You interest me."

"Oh, Heavens," I said falteringly. "Why have you got such big
eyes?"

At this, to my discomfiture, she broke into peals of merriment.

"Before you looked at me like that, I was really enjoying your
company without wanting to kiss you."

"Steady!"

"Besides your eyes, there's your- Look here, it isn't fair."

"That'll do. I'll race you to that rock out there."

She was in the water first, but I beat her easily. We swam back
together, and she took her seat on the slab, while I stretched
myself on the sand by her side.

"You're a very singular man," she said after a while.

"I have been told so of many."

"And rather dull."