Brown's conscience pricked him, however, and he went to bed that night vowing over and over that he would be more careful thereafter.

He would take care not to meet the Graham girl again.

Having reached this decision, there remained nothing but to put her out of his mind entirely; which he succeeded in doing at a quarter after eleven, when he fell asleep.

Even then she was not entirely absent, for he dreamed a ridiculous dream about her.
Next day he did not go for a swim, but remained in the house.

Seth, at supper, demanded to know what ailed him.
"You're as mum as the oldest inhabitant of a deaf and dumb asylum," was the lightkeeper's comment.