breakfast. Well, well! Only this morning- "

"Dry up!"

I apostrophized the sea.

"I don't want to have to report the chap," I said, "but if - "

The camera clicked again.

"I'm not sure this isn't an assault," I said. "That it is a
trespass, I know. Who are your solicitors? And may I take it
that they will accept service? "(Here I rolled over and leaned
on my elbow.) "You do look fit. Just move your heel out of that
pool- there's an anemone going to mistake it for a piece of
alabaster. That's right! Oh, but, Mermaid, do tell me how you
keep your hair so nice when you're bathing?"

"Like it?"

"I love it."

"I simply don't put my head under."

"A most dangerous practice, believe me."

"It's worth the risk."

"I belive it is."