"It's what comes in our heads when we Play at 'Let's-make-believe,' And when we play at 'Guessing.'" It was their favourite play. Gladys had invented it, as she invented most of their plays, and Roger was even more ready to play at it than at any other, ready though he always was to do anything Gladys liked or wanted. Many children would have made it different--instead of "going over the sea to Papa," they would have played at what they would do when Papa should come over the sea to them. But that was not what they had learnt to look forward to, somehow--they were like two little swallows, always dreaming of a sunny fairyland they knew not where, only "over the sea," and in these dreams and…
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