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He is wearing a yachting cap, blue yachting coat, white flannel pants, buckskin shoes.

''is a pretty girl of nineteen, with dark hair and eyes. Her skin is deeply tanned, her figure tall and athletic, reminding one of when we first saw her. Her personality is direct and frank. She gives the impression of a person who always knows exactly what she is after and generally gets it, but is also generous and a good loser, a good sport who is popular with her own sex as well as sought after by men. She is dressed in a bright-colored sport costume''.

[Nervous and excited—on pins and needles—lowering his binoculars impatiently]

Can’t see anything up there! There’s a damned haze on the river!

[Handing the binoculars to ]

Here, Madeline. You’ve got young eyes.

[Eagerly]

Thank you.

[She looks up the river through the glasses]

[Thinking—bitterly]

Young eyes! they look into Gordon’s eyes! he sees love in her young eyes! mine are old now!

[Pulling out his watch]

Soon be time for the start.