She promised to show me some of these magazines, but retracted it afterwards, and would never be persuaded to do so.

In our play hours she sate, or stood still, with a book, if possible.

Some of us once urged her to be on our side in a game at ball.

She said she had never played, and could not play.

We made her try, but soon found that she could not see the ball, so we put her out.
She took all our proceedings with pliable indifference, and always seemed to need a previous resolution to say 'No' to anything.