If you want to see Young Si , '' she whispered , pointing to the skids , where a busy figure was discernible in a large boat , `` that 's him , with his back to us , in the cream-coloured boat . He 's counting out mackerel . If you go over to that platform behind him , you 'll get a good look when he turns around . I 'm going to coax a mackerel out of that stingy old Snuffy , if I can . '' She tripped off , and Ethel walked slowly over to the boats . The men stared at her in open-mouthed admiration as she passed them and walked out on the platform behind Young Si . There was no one near the two . The others were all assembled around Snuffy 's boat . Young Si was throwing out the mackerel with marvellous rapidity , but at the sound of a footstep behind him he turned and straightened up his tall form . They stood face to face . `` Miles ! '' `` Ethel ! '' Young Si staggered back against the mast , letting two silvery bloaters slip through his hands overboard . His handsome , sunburned face was very white . Ethel Lennox turned abruptly and silently and walked swiftly across the sand . Agnes felt her arm touched , and turned to see Ethel standing , pale and erect , beside her . `` Let us go home , '' said the latter unsteadily . `` It is very damp here -- I feel chilled . '' `` Oh , dear ! '' exclaimed Agnes penitently .
`` I ought XXXXX have told you to bring a shawl .
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