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"Fresh as the foam, new bathed in Paphian wells," Hamer Wildburn quoted as, stooping down, he pulled Lucienne from the water, up the steps and on to his boat, the sea shine glittering upon her bathing suit. "Say, if you had not come this morning, I should have put on my shore clothes and presented myself at the _château_."
"A young man who can quote poetry lying on his stomach," she laughed "deserves a visit from Aphrodite herself. I am terribly sorry, Hamer my dear but we have a houseful, and you know what that means. Thank goodness we have our own bay the other side so I can escape sometimes. I must lie in the sun while I dry."