This water is glorious, and I began to be afraid I should have to give it up." "The creek, and even the bay itself are safe enough at flood," he went on.

"I often go there then.

When the tide is coming in it is all right even for--" He paused.

She finished the sentence for him.

"Even for a girl, you were going to say." She waded forward to where the shoal ended and the deeper part began.