Swans are lovelier than girls, especially when they're sprinkled with diamonds.
And she gracefully swam away, without seeming to care whether they answered or not. Ervic and his companions were in despair. Some of these events had been witnessed by Ozma and Dorothy and Lady Aurex, who had left the house and gone close to the glass of the dome, in order to see what was going on. Many of the Skeezers had also crowded against the dome, wondering what would happen next. Although their vision was to an extent blurred by the water and the necessity of looking upward at an angle, they had observed the main points of the drama enacted above.