Once again, using the name Douglas for the main character, Bradbury introduces us to a love story. A thirty-something man and his new bride are to move into his childhood home on the shores of a beautiful lake. He has a sadness in him that goes back to when he was ten and met a pretty blonde girl with whom he fell in love. She loved to swim and he was petrified of the water. She wanted to teach him, but his fears overwhelmed his feelings for her. As the family was about to leave at summer's end, she decides to take one more swim. She disappears in the water and is never seen again. Now the man sees a an castle on the beach. This has the classic ghost story ending.