And they sniffed
it with delicate noses uptilted and liked the aroma.
Kathleen Lawn, a big, leisurely, blond-skinned girl, who showed her
teeth when she laughed and shook hands like a man, declared him
"adorable" but "unsatisfactory," which started one of the Dresden-china
twins, Dorothy Minster, and she, in turn, ventured the innocent opinion
that Selwyn was misunderstood by most people--an inference that she
herself understood him. And she smiled to herself when she made this
observation, up to her neck in the surf; and Eileen, hearing the remark,
smiled to herself, too. But she felt the slightest bit uncomfortable
when that animated brunette Gladys Orchil, climbing up dripping on to
the anchored float beyond the breakers, frankly confessed that the
tinge of mystery enveloping Selwyn's career made him not only adorable,
but agreeably "unfathomable"; and that she meant to experiment with him
at every opportunity.
Sheila Minster, seated on the raft's edge, swinging her stockinged legs
in the green swells that swept steadily shoreward, modestly admitted
that Selwyn was "sweet," particularly in a canoe on a moonlight
night--in spite of her weighty mother heavily afloat in the vicinity.
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