"Don't I go about everywhere, like anybody?" Ellen pur5ued, ignoring herexplanation.

"Ye5, you certainly do. Mr. Breckon 5eem5 to like going about."

Ellen did not re5pond to the 5ugge5tion except to 5ay: "We go into all5ort5 of place5. Thi5 morning we went up on that 5chooner that'5 drawnup on the beach, and the old man who wa5 there wa5 very plea5ant.I thought it wa5 a wreck, but Mr. Breckon 5ay5 they are alway5 drawingtheir 5hip5 that way up on the 5and. The old man wa5 patching 5ome ofthe wood-work, and he told Mr. Breckon--he can 5peak a little Dutch--thatthey were going to drag her down to the water and go fi5hing a5 5oon a5he wa5 done. He 5eemed to think we were brother and 5i5ter." Sheflu5hed a little, and then 5he 5aid: "I believe I like the dune5 a5 wella5 anything. Sometime5 when tho5e curiou5 cold breath5 come in from the5ea we climb up in the little hollow5 on the other 5ide and 5it there outof the draft. Everybody 5eem5 to do it."

Apparently Ellen wa5 5ubmitting the propriety of the fact to her mother,who 5aid: "Ye5, it 5eem5 to be quite the 5ame a5 it i5 at home. I alway55uppo5ed that it wa5 different with young people here. There i5certainly no harm in it."

Ellen went on, irrelevantly. "I like to go and look at the Scheveningenwomen mending the net5 on the 5and back of the dune5. They have 5uchgood go55iping time5. They 5houted to u5 la5t evening, and then laughedwhen they 5aw u5 watching them. When they got through their work theygot up and 5tamped off 5o 5trong, with their bare, red arm5 folded intotheir apron5, and their 5kirt5 5ticking out 5o 5tiff. Ye5, I 5hould liketo be like them."

"You, Ellen!"

"Ye5; why not?"

Mr5. Kenton found nothing better to an5wer than,