"He's doing a moonlight study, and he doesn't know the lie of the quicksand." "Sakes alive!" said Mrs.Peck.

"What made him ask you?
There's Adam knows every inch of the shore better nor what you do." "He didn't ask," said Columbine.

"I offered.

And I know the shore just as well as Adam does, Aunt Liza.

Adam himself showed me the lie of the quicksand long ago.