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But she was not playing any of the games she loved the absorbing pretend-games with which she occupied herself on just such rare occasions. Her own pleasure, her own disappointment, too, these were entirely put aside in a concern touching weightier matters.
"I hope you're not going to be cross and troublesome, and make it impossible for me to have a couple of hours to myself this afternoon especially when I'm suffering." Then, coaxingly, "You can amuse yourself with one of your nice pretend-games, dear." From under long up-curling lashes Gwendolyn regarded her in silence. "I've planned to lunch out," went on Miss Royle.
How simply and naturally each was now explained! explained as she herself had imagined each would be. She felt a sudden pride in herself. So far had anything been really unexpected? As she went back to pause in front of the little old gentleman, it was with a delightful sense of understanding. Oh, this was one of her pretend-games, gloriously come true!
She kissed the smiling lips of the one, the laughing eyes of the other. The crescent of the Drive, never without its pageant; the broad river thronged with craft; the high forest-fringed precipice and the houses that could be glimpsed beyond all these played their part in Gwendolyn's pretend-games.
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