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Night after night we went swimming after dinner, because it was nice. Sometimes the moon was up and they were very pleasant evenings. There was nobody else there. There was a semi-private beach where we had the privilege of going. The children went there in the daytime. These were the days before hordes and mobs of people on Long Island. Everything could be on a kind of nice, neighborly, friendly basis. I don't think we paid any fees for the use of this beach, but it was a sort of unspoken arrangement. You didn't go except by invitation - that sort of thing. The children played on that beach and went swimming in the daytime and we went swimming in the evenings mostly, because it was convenient.

That was when I realized what a magnificent swimmer he was. We used to get nervous sometimes because Bob used to set out for the middle of Long Island Sound. I'd sometimes wonder if he'd ever return. He'd go way out to where you couldn't see him. It being dark, we'd finally lose sight of him entirely. I remember one night he must have been gone well over an hour and a half before he came back. Henry was discussing how we should break the news to Mary - “What shall we tell her?” We were all urging each other, “Let's wait a little while. Don't call the police yet.” We hoped that he might get back. He was really a wonderful swimmer.