Andrew had hired one for a fortnight once when Ellen was ailing, and it had been the event of a lifetime to the family.

They hereafter dated from the year "we went to Dragon Beach." Lloyd looked with a quick impulse of compassionate tenderness at this child who had been away from Rowe once to Dragon Beach.

He had his own impressions of Dragon Beach and also of Rowe.
"I suppose you enjoyed that ?" said he.
"Very much.

The sea is beautiful." So, after all, it was the sea which she had cared for at Dragon Beach, and not the clam-bakes and merry-go-rounds and women in wrappers in the surf.

Robert felt rebuked for thinking of anything but the sea in his memory of Dragon Beach; there was a wonderful water-view there.
All the time they sat there in the parlor, the murmur of conversation at the south door continued, and now and again over it swelled the fervid exhortations of Nahum Beals.