I guess I'll go right up.

I'm--rather--wet, I believe." Tom looked at his watch, as Gypsy toiled dripping up the bank.

The temptation was too great to be resisted, and he called out,-- "Precisely half an hour! Gypsy, my dear, I'd stay all long, as the boys do, by all means!" It was a very good thing about Gypsy, that she was quite able to relish a joke at her own expense.

She laughed as merrily as Tom did, and the morning's adventure made quite as much fun as they would have gained from a string of perfectly respectable fishes, properly and scientifically caught, with dry feet and a warm seat on the bank under a glaring sun.

Mr.Hallam and Tom brought up plenty for dinner; so no one went hungry.
That afternoon, it chanced that the girls were left alone for about one hour.