Vacating

The cruise ship has an enormous indoor pool on the 4th floor (there is also an open-air pool and the 8th floor, along side of the twelve-person hot tub; but that is superfluous information).

There was this one time when Ellen was lifeguarding (the birds of paradise) and reading Cicero (Illa argumenta visa sunt et gravia et certa!). Unfortunately, this meant she was doing a poor job of it...one of the birds floundered all afternoon, and Ellen in an exasperation yanked Jane's showercap from her pool-locker and put it over her book so as to protect Cicero (Quid nos facere contra istos et scelera eorum debemus?). Jane came out and asked Ellen, "Are you giving your book a shower, or is that bird drowning?"

Ellen yelped and dove--kind of like squishing a bug--to rescue the bird. Meanwhile, Cicero flew through the air and landed shower-cap down, floating on the water--watertight. They rushed the bird to the ER (floor 2) and forgot about Cicero (Multam pecuniam deportat.), who might still be floating in the pool on the 4th floor (Does he know how to swim?).