`` Oh , I could n't show you that , '' he said uncomfortably . `` Why , I 've never even showed it to Stephen -- or Nora . Let me tell you something else instead , something that happened to me once long ago . You 'll find it more interesting than the foolscap book , only you must remember it is n't true ! You wo n't forget that , will you ? '' `` I 'll try to remember , '' Miss Trevor agreed . `` Well , I was sitting here one evening just like I was last night , and the sun was setting . And an enchanted boat came sailing over the sea and I got into her . The boat was all pearly like the inside of the mussel shells , and her sail was like moonshine . Well , I sailed right across to the sunset . Think of that -- I 've been in the sunset ! And what do you suppose it is ? The sunset is a land all flowers , like a great garden , and the clouds are beds of flowers . We sailed into a great big harbour , a thousand times bigger than the harbour over there at your hotel , and I stepped out of the boat on a ` normous meadow all roses . I stayed there for ever so long . It seemed almost a year , but the Youngest Twin Sailor says I was only away a few hours or so . You see , in Sunset Land the time is ever so much longer than it is here . But I was glad to come back too . I 'm always glad to come back to the cove and Stephen . Now , you know this never really happened . ''
Miss Trevor would not give up the foolscap book so easily , but for a long time Paul refused to show it XXXXX her .
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