Dotty's beautiful eyes danced, but she herself was motionless and demure.
When they landed, Susy called aloud for her aunt Martha to come and secure the boat.

Her voice echoed from afar, waking "the sleep of the hills," but no aunt Martha appeared.

The children clambered out at last, and Susy chained the boat to a stick, which she drove into the sand.

But the sand was light, and the boat was heavy, and the current strong; so before the children had walked a dozen rods, the Water-Kelpie was floating down stream of its own free will.
Thus it happened that although aunt Martha was certainly surprised, she did not seem very much pleased.

She did not say, "Bravo! my two nieces are smart children, to be rowing all alone by themselves." Nothing of the sort.