half-actual

Updated: April 30, 2025

With a timidity half-actual, half-assumed, she began to swim back to her starting-point. Half-way back, feeling tired, she allowed herself a rest in consideration of the fact that this was the longest swim that she had ever undertaken. Serenely she lay on the water with her hair floating about her. The morning was perfect, the sea like a lake. Overhead sailed a gull with no flap of wings.

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - The Rocks of Valpre