ahead of him , fay skipped and tumbled , caught herself and continued on without a pause , telling him constantly how she and charley and the girls and assorted friends of theirs had come here to this beach ; how much trouble they had had getting down , what they had caught , what the dangers were , who had been scared and who not ... he groped along after her , thinking that women could be divided into two distinct classes : those who were good climbers and then all the others lumped together .