The Golden Road

We had been having a splendid game of Blind-Man's Buff. That is, it had beensplendid at first; but later the fun went out of it because we found that Peter was, ofmalice prepense, allowing himself to be caught too easily, in order that he mighthave the pleasure of catching Felicity-which he never failed to do, no matter howtightly his eyes were bound. What remarkable goose said that love is blind? Lovecan see through five folds of closely-woven muffler with ease!"I'm getting tired," said Cecily, whose breath was coming rather quickly andwhose pale cheeks had bloomed into scarlet. "Let's sit down and get the Story Girlto tell us a story."