They had little fear of intrusion, for the spot was sacred to them.

They splashed about and laughed and played tricks, with streaming hair and free gestures.

I do not know when I saw the girls play as they did in the water.

It was a pretty picture, but the bathers would have been shocked beyond your understanding if you had suggested that naked women might be put into a picture.

If it ever happened, as it happened at least once for me to remember, that their privacy was outraged, the bathers were thrown into a panic as if their very lives were threatened.