"This is thrilling," said Mrs. Gerald, pencilling hard.
"Then everybody has to fill in words all the way down, your first word beginning with 'e' and ending with 'u,' and so on. See?"
Gerald leant over Dennis and explained carefully to him, and in a little while we all saw.
"Then, when everybody's finished, we define our words in turn, and the person who guesses a word first gets a mark. That's all."
"And a very good game too," I said, and I rubbed my head and began to think.
"Of course," said Norah, after a quarter of an hour's silence, "you want to make the words difficult and define them as subtly as possible."
"Of course," I said, wrestling with 'E—U.' I could only think of one word, and it was the one everybody else was certain to have.
"Are we all ready? Then somebody begin."
"You'd better begin, Norah, as you know the game," said Mrs. Gerald.
We prepared to begin.