He was very good-looking and self-contained, but his air of soldierly alertness was rather irritating.
'Will you have tea here then, or go across to the house, where there's a tent on the lawn ?' he asked.
'Can't we have a rowing boat, and get out ?' asked Ursula, who was always rushing in too fast.
'To get out ?' smiled Gerald.
'You see,' cried Gudrun, flushing at Ursula's outspoken rudeness, 'we don't know the people, we are almost COMPLETE strangers here.' 'Oh, I can soon set you up with a few acquaintances,' he said easily.
Gudrun looked at him, to see if it were ill-meant.

Then she smiled at him.
'Ah,' she said, 'you know what we mean.

Can't we go up there, and explore that coast ?' She pointed to a grove on the hillock of the meadow-side, near the shore half way down the lake.

'That looks perfectly lovely.

We might even bathe.