"No," said Prue, "not if every one's in."

"One can hardly tell which is the sea and which is the land," said Prue.

"Well, we must wait for the future to show," said Mr Bankes, coming in from the terrace. "It's almost too dark to see," said Andrew, coming up from the beach.

"Do we leave that light burning?" said Lily as they took their coats off indoors.

One by one the lamps were all extinguished, except that Mr Carmichael, who liked to lie awake a little reading Virgil, kept his candle burning rather longer than the rest.

"Andrew," she called back, "just put out the light in the hall."