'At the Bay' is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. In the following chapters, we discover that when Stanley Burnell goes for a swim early in the morning, Jonathan Trout is there; the two men wanted to be the first in the water, and Jonathan expresses sympathy for Stanley. And out in the countryside, Kezia helps Lottie with the stile to Isabel's disapproval. The Samuel Josephs children are said to be rowdy and they don't play with them any more. Then they come upon Rags and Pip, and the latter shows them an “emerald” he has found in the sand.
