Part 7 (1/2)
The next uests, went out on the balcony in front of her room and looked across the bay
The sun was not yet hot, and a fresh breeze flecked the blue water with feathery streaks of white, while the wet beach glistened dazzlingly
There was a refreshi+ng, salty srateful coolness; then she felt that so from the scene, and noticed that the _Enchantress_ had vanished The adventurers had sailed in the night On the whole she was conscious of relief They had gone and she could now get rid of the restlessness that their presence had caused After all, there was peril in the longing for change; it iser to be satisfied with the security and solid co down at a footstep, she saw Gore strolling about the lawn, faultlessly dressed in light flannel, with a Panama hat There was not a crease in his clothes that was out of place; the color scheht shade He stood for all her ht her to value: wealth, leisure, and cultivated taste Reggie was ain common with the bronzed, tar-stained Grahaination
”You look like the ,” Gore called up to her ”Won't you cohtful, and we'll have them all to ourselves”
Evelyn noticed the hint of intimacy, but it did not jar upon her mood, and she smiled as she answered that she would join hi the hard, white sand, breathing the keen freshness of the spray
”What et up so soon?” Evelyn asked
”It's not hard to guess I aiting for ood ti air, ”I think waiting for opportunities is a habit of yours Of course, you have some excuse for this”
Gore looked puzzled for a hed
”I see what you mean As a rule, the opportunities come to me”
”Don't they? I wonder whether you're much happier than the men who have to make, or look for, them”
”I can't say, because I haven't tried that plan I can't see why I should look for anything, when I don't have to Anyway, I guess I'et on with It's the strivers who're always getting after soive you jars”
”You're certainly not a striver,” Evelyn agreed ”However, you seem to have all a man could want”
”Not quite,” he answered ”I'll confess that I'ood things that co!”
Evelyn understood Reggie was not precipitate and feared a rebuff She believed that she could have hin of her approval before venturing too far The trouble was that she did not know if she wanted hied the subject, and they paced the beach, engaged in good-hu called them back to the hotel
In the afternoon, however, Evelyn's ain The breeze died away and it was very hot Everybody was languid, and she found her friends dull Although Gore tried to be airls about the hotel seemed more frivolous and shallow than usual None of these people ever did anything really worth while! Evelyn did not knohat she wished to do, but she felt that the life she led was unbearably stale
When dark fell and the deep rumble of the surf filled the air, she sat with her father in a quiet corner of the garden
”Didn't you say you ht make a short business trip to the West Indies?” she asked him
”Yes; I may have to spend a week in Havana”
”Then I wish you would take ed,” said Cliffe He seldo
”Your eo?”
Evelyn found this hard to answer, but she tried to forhts