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"Regatta-day!" laughed Mrs Bosenna, and pushed the cards away. The wedding-ring on her third finger glanced under the light of the hanging lamp. "Dinah shall tell our fortunes," she suggested. Dinah took the pack and proceeded very gravely to tell their fortunes.
On these and a few other trivial details I built a lazy hypothesis that he was a lawyer, and unmarried. Just before entering the station at Lostwithiel, our train passed between the white gates of a level crossing. A moment before I had caught sight of the George drooping from the church spire, and at the crossing I saw it was regatta-day in the small town.
"You're a cheerful-looking lot to start out with to win the cup back!" was his comment. "Oars ready! 'Way together!" The crew, like a child that suddenly tires of being naughty, bent to their oars, and the boat slid through the water under long, swinging strokes.... Regatta-day broke calm and clear.
"A-a-away Racing Whaler's Crew!" shouted the cracked high tenor. "Man your boat!" "There you are!" said the Blacksmith, a silent, bearded man. "What are we all 'angin' on to the slack for? Come on deck. That's the first race." Regatta-day, even in War-time, was a day of high carnival.
"But I never could refrain from that antic, though I feels condemned too, in a way, an' poor Thomas laid in earth no longer ago than twelve noon. But in the midst of life we are in death." "I don't remember a more successful buryin'," said the woman who held the little girl. "That was partly luck, as you may say, it bein' regatta-day an' the fun o' the fair not properly begun.
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