It almost makes my heart stop beating."
"All right, we'll have the weather man heat it for you," said Betty,
slipping into her neat little suit. "I don't know how the water can be
cold, though," she added, "the air is suffocating to-day."
"Now--one, two, three--go!" and they were off like four little black
sprites, down the broad stairway and into the living room where the boys
were already assembled, talking to the chaperon.
The boys wore raincoats over their bathing suits; and, as the girls
entered the room, they shouted a merry greeting.
"So soon?" called Frank in surprise. "Why, we didn't expect to see you
for an hour at least."
"An hour?" said Betty, with feigned indignation--for she was a good
little actress, was Betty. "Why, we thought you were never coming!"
"You mean to say you were waiting for us?" said Allen, incredulously.
"Betty, are you telling the truth? Mrs. Irving, is she?"
"I assure you I was too busy finding my bathing suit and getting into it
to know just when the girls were ready," responded the chaperon.
At one part of the island the ground dipped gradually so that one might
have any depth of water desired, and it was to this part that the young
folks made their way.
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