"And to really waste your time like this--loafing longshore, and
sailing boats, and--and driving an automobile. Why! you are a regular
beach comber, Mr. Tapp. It's not much of an outlook for a man I should
think."
She suddenly stopped, realizing that she was showing more interest than
the occasion called for. Lawford was watching her with smoldering eyes.
"Don't you think it is a nice way to live?" he asked. "The sea is
really wonderful. I have learned more about sea and shore already than
you can find in all the books. Do you know where the gulls nest, and
how they hatch their young? Did you ever watch a starfish feeding? Do
you know what part of the shellfish is the scallop of commerce? Do you
know that every seventh wave is almost sure to be larger than its
fellows? Do you----"
"Oh, it may be very delightful," Louise interrupted this flow of badly
catalogued information to say. He expressed exactly her own desires.
Nothing could be pleasanter than spending the time, day after day,
learning things "at first hand" about nature.
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