Alice was almost grateful for Anne's dramatic interruption, so that she didn't have to answer Lory's question. her cousin was wrong, probably - Tobias hadn't even attempted it - but Alice was too embarrassed to think about it at all.

They had just pulled Anne up into the boat (the smell of vomit from now two individuals made her feel sick as well), when she realized what was going on on shore. Her father had attacked Mr. Meijer. "No stop!" she shrieked, more for Mr. Meijer's sake than for what would surely happen to her father.