As a wonderfully exciting game.

You see, everything down here was so thrillingly exciting and interesting to me, even then." "I see." "If you don't mind," she added, "I think I can make you understand it all the better, if you'll let me go back to the beginning.

I'll make it as short as I can." "Yes." "I had been brought up in New York, except when we were in Europe or when I was away at school.

My father and mother never let me see or know anything of real life.

Dad was old, even as far back as I can remember.