Jane, will you come with me ?" Jane was prompt to accept Harriet's invitation.

Miss Elting also was invited, but concluded to remain with the other girls on the houseboat.
Harriet and her companion rowed rapidly to the island shortly after breakfast.

It was a good sized island, as they discovered by rowing down one side of it, the side nearest to the shore of the mainland near which the houseboat was anchored.

The girls rowed in so close that they were able to reach up and touch the foliage overhead and in places it trailed in the water.

The island was rocky, still it was heavily wooded.