Don't say you don't know that, Mum.

Howsever, the boy went there to play.

What did you play at, boy ?" "We played with flags," I said.

(I beg to observe that I think of myself with amazement, when I recall the lies I told on this occasion.) "Flags!" echoed my sister.
"Yes," said I."Estella waved a blue flag, and I waved a red one, and Miss Havisham waved one sprinkled all over with little gold stars, out at the coach-window.

And then we all waved our swords and hurrahed." "Swords!" repeated my sister.