"Come here, George," said Kate; and she made room for him between herself and Alice.

"Wouldn't you like to be swimming down there as those boys were doing when we went out into the balcony?
The water looks so enticing." "I can't say I should;--unless it might be a pleasant way of swimming into the next world." "I should so like to feel myself going with the stream," said Kate; "particularly by this light.

I can't fancy in the least that I should be drowned." "I can't fancy anything else," said Alice.
"It would be so pleasant to feel the water gliding along one's limbs, and to be carried away headlong,--knowing that you were on the direct road to Rotterdam." "And so arrive there without your clothes," said George.
"They would be brought after in a boat.

Didn't you see that those boys had a boat with them?
But if I lived here, I'd never do it except by moonlight.

The water looks so clear and bright now, and the rushing sound of it is so soft! The sea at Yarmouth won't be anything like that I suppose." Neither of them any longer answered her, and yet she went on talking about the river, and their aunt, and her prospects at Yarmouth.
Neither of them answered her, and yet it seemed that they had not a word to say to each other.