He had openly abandoned the greedy band of berry-pickers, and the artistic knot of sketchers, and the noisy body of pleasure-seekers, who were paddling frivolously around the shores of the lake and screaming with causeless laughter, as soon as he found that Gerald did not intend attaching herself to any of them but had struck out the new and independent line of doing absolutely nothing at all.

Halloway had been helping industriously with the fire, but he came toward the group under the trees when his services seemed no longer required.
"You look most invitingly comfortable," he said, fanning himself with his hat.

"We must try to coax Miss Phebe here for a rest." "Pray don't," said De Forest, lifting a lazy hand with an air of finding even that motion too great an effort.

"At least not till the coffee is well under way.

I tasted a cup of her make yesterday.