When Mérette (Anne Bos, 12) reaches for a waterlily, she trips and falls into the pond, so she strips out of the wet dress and runs naked into the pond. Then she spots a group of kids (4 boys and another girl) walking by and waves for them to join her into the pond, which they do. The scene finishes with all of them dancing around naked in the grass by the pond.

Mérette gets spanked for coming home with wet clothes.

Mérette is spanked because the pastor discovered (in an earlier scene) that she had been playing naked in the pond with the other children and believes that this was because Mérette has corrupted their minds.