This is a nice place." Behind them, was the high, steep, wooded bank, rising right up.

Before them was a little strip of pebbly beach, and little wavelets of the river washing past it.

Beyond lay the broad stream, all bright in the summer sunshine, with the great blue hills rising up misty and blue in the distance.

Nothing else; a little curve in the shore on each side shut them in from all that was above or below near at hand.
"Why this is a fine place," repeated the Captain.

"Were you ever here before ?" "Not in a long time," said Daisy.