Swimming-pool

I love especially to think of the Lady Margaret’s ancient foundation of Christ’s College with the bowling-green, the deep swimming-pool, and Milton’s mulberry tree.

Swimming-pools for ladies, children and gentlemen.

If half a dozen swimming-pools on either river were inclosed with canvas screens, and strictly reserved for the use of men, the most earnest moralist, even if provided with a powerful field-glass, would strive in vain to undermine his moral nature from the deck of a passing steam-boat, and the men of the poorer classes could secure a daily bath in comparative comfort.

Nakedness is wholly inappropriate in almost all social situations and, even in situations where much naked flesh is exposed (on the beach, at the swimming-pool, even in the bedroom), the bodies that meet there are likely to be adorned, if only by jewellery, or indeed, even perfume: […]

There is a sudden cut—they are left in darkness for a few seconds—and then a small swimming-pool comes into view, with four or five people in it (“That’s my uncle and aunt’s pool,” Evian says, “We used to go there a lot, in the summer. I used to get on really well with my cousin Nadine, we’re the same age.”).

Inevitably, the Comptess went so far as to offer her (and hence us, when we were there) the use of their bijou swimming-pool, which her sons had cleared of algae and water-beetles just before her arrival.