1 The people walked in little groups toward the beach.
2 He pressed her hand and went away in the direction of the beach.
3 They descended the steps, and walked away together toward the beach.
4 She was not thinking of these things when she walked down to the beach.
5 He fixed his gaze upon a white sunshade that was advancing at snail's pace from the beach.
6 The two women went away one morning to the beach together, arm in arm, under the huge white sunshade.
7 Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach.
8 Edna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot.
9 The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
10 It was Saturday night a few weeks after the intimate conversation held between Robert and Madame Ratignolle on their way from the beach.
11 This she had thought nothing of, though she was surprised when he did not join her later in the afternoon, when she went down to the beach.
12 There were a number of bath-houses along the beach, of rough but solid construction, built with small, protecting galleries facing the water.
13 She was not surprised at Mademoiselle Reisz's question the morning that lady, following her to the beach, tapped her on the shoulder and asked if she did not greatly miss her young friend.
14 The sea was quiet now, and swelled lazily in broad billows that melted into one another and did not break except upon the beach in little foamy crests that coiled back like slow, white serpents.
15 The walk to the beach was no inconsiderable one, consisting as it did of a long, sandy path, upon which a sporadic and tangled growth that bordered it on either side made frequent and unexpected inroads.
16 Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her.