The man nodded.
"I guess that. Now we'll play the game properly. You must tell me about yourselves and I'll tell you about ourselves. Who will begin?"
"You," cried both the little girls at once.
So he began:
"My name is Fibo. That is what Dreamikins calls me, and if we're going to be friends you can call me so too."
"But you weren't christened Fibo?" said Freda.
"I was christened Augustus Arnold. Do you like that better?"
"Why does she call you Fibo?" inquired Daffy.
She had been dancing up and down lightly on her toes; now she stood still, and regarded the strange man gravely.
"Dreamikins and I have a way of naming our friends as we like; and I was Mephibosheth to her—'lame on both feet,' but we shortened it to Fibo."