SCENE ON A BEACH
I will admit, I was annoyed when you came into view. A few days ago, I found this secluded hollow in the sand dunes, about 100 yards back from the beach, and until that moment I had had it entirely to myself. I am on a family holiday here for two weeks and, although the beach is not busy, I was looking for somewhere quiet, away from the boisterous play of my two younger brothers, aged eleven and nine. After all, I’m quite grown up, my sixteenth birthday was a month ago, and I want a peaceful spot to lie in the sunshine and read my book, without shrieking siblings splashing sand all over me. So there I was, in my special place, lying on my front and stretched out on my beach towel, when …