Then she smiled Dickon's own curving smile.

"Eh! but they're enjoyin' theirselves for sure," she said.
She was quite right, the comfortable wonderful mother creature--and she had never been more so than when she said their "play actin'" would be their joy.

Colin and Mary found it one of their most thrilling sources of entertainment.

The idea of protecting themselves from suspicion had been unconsciously suggested to them first by the puzzled nurse and then by Dr.Craven himself.
"Your appetite.

Is improving very much, Master Colin," the nurse had said one day.