I suppose you came from the Hall ?" "Yes!" she answered.

"I walked straight across from the gate.

I never thought about the tide coming up here." "You will have to walk back by the road," he answered.

"It is a good deal further round, but there is no other way." She hung her hand over the side, rejoicing in the touch of the cool soft water.
"That," she answered, "does not matter at all.

It is very early still, and I do not fancy that any one will be up yet for several hours." He made no further attempt at conversation, devoting himself entirely to the task of steering and propelling his clumsy craft along the narrow way.