When the tide turned they went home . `` We have n't seen the kelpy , after all , '' said Reeves . `` I think I shall see him some day , '' said Helen gravely . `` I think he is waiting for me there in that gloomy cave of his , and some time or other he will get me . '' Reeves smiled at the gloomy fancy , and Helen smiled back at him with one of her sudden radiances . The tide was creeping swiftly up over the white sands . The sun was low and the bay was swimming in a pale blue glory . They parted at Clam Point , Helen to go for the cows and Reeves to wander on up the shore . He thought of Helen at first , and the wonderful change that had come over her of late ; then he began to think of another face -- a marvellously lovely one with blue eyes as tender as the waters before him . Then Helen was forgotten . The summer waned swiftly . One afternoon Reeves took a fancy to revisit the Kelpy 's Cave . Helen could not go . It was harvest time , and she was needed in the field . `` Do n't let the kelpy catch you , '' she said to him half seriously . `` The tide will turn early this afternoon , and you are given to day-dreaming . '' `` I 'll be careful , '' he promised laughingly , and he meant to be careful . But somehow when he reached the cave its unwholesome charm overcame him , and he sat down on the boulder at its mouth . `` An hour yet before tide time , '' he said . `` Just enough time to read that article on impressionists in my review and then stroll home by the sandshore . ''
From reading he passed to day-dreaming , and day-dreaming drifted into sleep , with his head pillowed on the rocky walls XXXXX the cave .
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