"Of course." And shortly after she's laid out her towel, Katherine shimmies out of her cover-up dress, toes off her sandals, and comes into the water to join her friend. Ilde wasn't exaggerating when she said that it was cold, and a shiver runs through her as she wades out to where she is in the water.

"My, you weren't kidding," she says, but she grins at her anyway. "It's quite refreshing, though."