To her , they were as lustrous pearls , threaded on the crimson cord of a vivid fancy . When she met with a new one she uttered it over and over to herself in solitude , weighing it , caressing it , infusing it with the radiance of her voice , making it her own in all its possibilities for ever . `` Well , anyhow , it is n't a suitable word in this case , '' insisted Felicity . `` We are not up to any dev -- any extra bad mischief . Writing down one 's dreams is n't mischief at all . '' Certainly it was n't . Surely not even the straitest sect of the grown-ups could call it so . If writing down your dreams , with agonizing care as to composition and spelling -- for who knew that the eyes of generations unborn might not read the record ? -- were not a harmless amusement , could anything be called so ? I trow not . We had been at it for a fortnight , and during that time we only lived to have dreams and write them down . The Story Girl had originated the idea one evening in the rustling , rain-wet ways of the spruce wood , where we were picking gum after a day of showers . When we had picked enough , we sat down on the moss-grown stones at the end of a long arcade , where it opened out on the harvest-golden valley below us , our jaws exercising themselves vigorously on the spoil of our climbings . We were never allowed to chew gum in school or in company , but in wood and field , orchard and hayloft , such rules were in abeyance . `` My Aunt Jane used to say it was n't polite to chew gum anywhere , '' said Peter rather ruefully . `` I do n't suppose your Aunt Jane knew all the rules of etiquette , '' said Felicity , designing to crush Peter with a big word , borrowed from the Family Guide . But Peter was not to be so crushed . He had in him a certain toughness of fibre , that would have been proof against a whole dictionary . `` She did , too , '' he retorted . `` My Aunt Jane was a real lady , even if she was only a Craig .
She knew all those rules and she kept them when there was nobody round XXXXX see her , just the same as when any one was .
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