"Swimmer" Flashback

Wow, I'm having a hard time remembering the story because we've read so many stories in between then and now [Guys, this is interference and decay. Yes, I am learning something in psych =P]. Well I'm posting it anyway. As a refresher, Ned is the protagonist and Lucinda is his wife. Other characters are daughters whose names I made up

Page 403: "Japanese lanterns that Mrs. Levy had bought in Kyoto the year before last, or the year before that?"

It was going to be a long storm. Ned sat in the gazebo and entertained himself with his dreams. Once he swam the Lucinda River, he could show it to his daughter, Marie. Ne let his mind wander to the summers when he used to take her out to the beach. Marie loved the water-- she'd swim far, far out until Lucinda worried she'd never make it back. Ned thought of Lucinda calling out to Marie as Hayley and Emma built sand castles. Even at five months pregnant and shouting to Marie, Lucinda was so beautiul. "You get back here, Marie!" she'd called. "It's not safe out there!" In his mind's ear, Ned could hear Marie's childish giggle. Who was her mother to say what was safe and what wasn't? He recalled her swimming back, little head bobbing up and down. He recalled Hayley and Emma carving out a moat for their masterpiece. He recalled Lucinda worrying each time Mare's head went under water and then... the memory stopped there. He didn't remember her making it back to the shore. He didn't remember the drive home. He couldn't conjure up any more memoris of taking her to the beach. Certainly everything had turned out fine... right?

"He stayed in the Levy's gazebo until the storm passed"