But to avoid breaking up the party and to get through the time somehow, after a rest she joined the game again, and pretended to be enjoying it.

All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance.

She had come with the intention of staying two days, if all went well.

But in the evening, during the game, she made up her mind that she would go home next day.