Gwenny's remark, "Ze man is fissin'," seemed to point to an incubation of an idea, familiar to maturer life, that fishing is more truly a state than an action. But the addendum--that he didn't cass any fiss--betrayed her inexperience. Maturity does not call attention to ill-success; or, if it does, it lays it at the door of the fish. "What a jolly header one could have from here! No railings or anything. No--ducky! I won't put you down to look over the edge. That's not a thing for little girls to do." "You'd never get up again, Sarah. You'd have to swim ashore." "One could swim round the steps, Jeremiah--at least, according to the tide. It's slack water now." "I wish, Mr. Fenwick--(so does Julius)--that you would make that girl reasonable. She'll drown herself before she's done." "I know she will, Mrs. Paganini. Sure and certain! Nobody can stop her. But Vereker's going to bring her to." "Where _is_ the doctor, Tish? Didn't he say he was coming?" This was Bradshaw. He usually says things to his wife, and leaves publication to her. "Of course he said he was coming. I wonder if anything's the matter?" "Oh, no! It's his ma! The Goody's put an embargo on him, and kept him at home. Poor Prosy!" Sally is vexed, too. But observe!--she knows perfectly well that nothing but the Goody would have kept Prosy from his appointment. No one in particular, but every one more or less, supposes that now we must go back for dolly to be galvanised, Tishy rather reluctantly, for she does not share her husband's indifference about what the detestable one above says on the subject of shopmen; Miss Arkwright greedily, being reminded of a higher object in life than mere grey mullet catching. She, however, ascribes her avidity to dolly, calling on public credulity to believe that the latter has spoken to that effect. The arrangement of dolly in connexion with the two brass handles offers difficulties, but a felicitous solution is discovered, for not only will dolly remain in contact with both if her arms are thrust inside them, but insomuch as her sleeves are stiff and expansive, and require a perceptible pull to withdraw them, will remain suspended in mid-air without further support, to enjoy the rapture or endure the torture of the current, as may prove to be the case. From this arises an advantage--namely, that her mamma will be able to give her attention to the regulator, and shift the wire bundle in and out, with a due regard to dolly's powers of endurance. What little things the lives of the folk in this story have turned on! Now, suppose Gwenny had never been allowed to take charge of that regulator! However, this is anticipation.