She was very affable with him, but not wholly open; for after a while she left him under the impression that, so far from being an orphan, she was staying with her parents in lodgings in the station road.

But she bore away from their colloquy a pleasing shilling with which he had invited her to buy chocolate.
She walked along the esplanade somewhat disappointed that the beach should all of it be large pebbles.

She had always believed the shore of the sea to be sand.

She did not, however, repine, but walked along to the end of it, watching the bathers and the playing children, in a great content.

Then she went down the path beyond the esplanade, between the sea and marshes, to the mouth of the swift-flowing Otter.
She walked out over the slippery rocks to the edge of the ebbing sea, and finding some children paddling about in a pool, joined them.
And still the lawyer and the detective ranged the wood like questing hounds.
The pleasant feel of the warm salt water on her legs inspired Pollyooly with larger desires.