1 Connie would not take her bath this evening.
2 As she closed the door the gong sounded, but she would take her bath all the same--she must take her bath.
3 I should like to see Venice again,' she said, 'and to bathe from one of the shingle islands across the lagoon.
4 She went on at Venice just the same, rowing out in the gondola with Duncan Forbes, bathing, letting the days slip by.
5 Now he made a third in the gondola, and he bathed with them across the lagoon, and was their escort: a quiet, almost taciturn young man, very advanced in his art.
6 A little later the Guthries, the prince, the countess, Sir Alexander, and sometimes Mr Lind, the chaplain, would go off to the Lido, where they would bathe; coming home to a late lunch at half past one.
7 The happiest times were when she got Hilda to go with her away across the lagoon, far across to some lonely shingle-bank, where they could bathe quite alone, the gondola remaining on the inner side of the reef.
8 No, no, she would give up her hard bright female power; she was weary of it, stiffened with it; she would sink in the new bath of life, in the depths of her womb and her bowels that sang the voiceless song of adoration.