"I don't think it will be much this afternoon, if there's rain at all.

The patrols know what to do if it begins.

This grey sky will be good for fishing." Mrs.Arnold was an enthusiastic angler, and had brought her fishing-tackle with her to camp.

She intended that afternoon to hire a boat from the farm and see if she could beguile some of the wily trout from the lake.
"I'll take four girls with me," she announced: "two to row, one to steer, and one to help with the landing-net." Needless to say, she could have had dozens of volunteers, but her choice fell on Kathleen Simpson, Ruth White, Gladys Broughton, and Evie Isherwood, who, highly elated, went off to unmoor the boat.

Then, Ruth and Kathleen rowing, and Gladys steering, they made gently down the lake towards the west end, where the stream flowed out.
Pretty Mrs.Arnold looked particularly charming in a blue-and-white boating-costume, with a little blue fisherman's cap perched on her fair hair.