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Updated: June 23, 2025
It is so lovely that after three years it still seems like a dream. We are only one short look from the Pacific Ocean, that ocean into whose mists the sun sets in flaming purple and gold, or the more soft tones of shimmering gray and shell-pink. We sit on our terrace feeling as if we were in a proscenium box on the edge of the world, and watch the ever-varying splendor.
The straw was a subtle blue shade the colour Raymond Bonner, who was a classmate and almost a "beau," wore so much in neckties and the facing shell-pink, a delicate harmony; but the supreme ecstasy came with placing the little silken flowers, pink and mauve and deeper subtle-blue, in effective composition upon that heavenly background; and, in just the one place, a glimpse of subtle-blue ribbon, a sheen as gracious as achieved by the great Creator when, with a master's eye, on a landscape he places a climactic stroke of shining blue water.
But in a second or two Scott's placid voice came into the silence, and at once her distress began to subside. "Have you decided about the decoration of this room yet?" he asked. "I always thought this dead-white rather cold." "Dinah is to have her own choice," said Sir Eustace. "I would like shell-pink," said Dinah, without looking up.
Yet she proved herself a very girl none the less by suddenly crying out at sight of certain tall masses of shell-pink flowers growing by the roadside in a shady nook, and by insisting on getting out to pick them for herself. "It's so much more fun," she asserted, "to choose one's own than to watch a man picking all the poorest blossoms and leaving the very best." "Is that what we do?"
Her dress was of the finest Brussels lace, looped over a skirt of the palest shell-pink satin; deep crimson velvet roses clustered on her breast, and nestled in her rich hair; a necklace of magnificent rubies clasped her neck, and the same jewels glittered on her round white arms. Her eyes shone with pleasurable excitement, and the prettiest colour imaginable tinted her delicate cheeks.
And I proved Peter's contention by turning shell-pink even under my sunburn and feeling a warm little runway of pleasure creep up through my carcass, for the homeliest old prairie-hen that ever made a pinto shy, I suppose, loves to be told that she's beautiful. Peter, of course, is a conscienceless liar, but I can't help liking him, and he'll always nest warm in the ashes of my heart....
For I don't know, and you cannot tell me if you would. Out of these little windows called eyes we look at one another, and study surfaces, and try to peep into neighbours' windows. But all is dark behind the windows always dark, in there where they tell us souls hide." She laid the shell-pink bud against her cheek that matched it, smiling with wise sweetness to herself.
Then they started, almost like lovers; for the drooping branches rustled and Tara stood before them a very vision of June; in her straight frock of Delphinium blue; one shell-pink rose in her hat and its counterpart in her waist-belt. Canvas shoes and tennis-racquet betrayed her fell design on Roy. "Am I despritly superfluous?" she queried, smiling from one to the other.
Gerda was upright and slim as a wand against the buffeting; her white little face was stung into shell-pink; her wet hair blew back like yellow seaweed. Barry thought suddenly of Nan, who revelled in storms, and quickly shut his mind on the thought. He was schooling himself to think away from Nan, with her wild animal grace and her flashing mind and her cruel, careless indifference.
A shadow falls across the paper on which he is writing he glances up beholds an airy fairy vision regarding him with a saucy smile a slight graceful creature clothed in shell-pink with daintiest lace frillings at the throat and wrists, and with a wealth of nut-brown locks brought low on her white brow, letting only the great grey eyes shine out.
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