Me: What’s Dave doing?
Nell: Sitting in the yellow chair.
Me: He’s got one eye closed.
Nell: Yes, it’s perfectly obvious.
Me: No, it isn’t.
Nell: He’s playing ‘I Spy’.
Me: For Sally? I didn’t know Dave was one of her spies. I thought it was just Harriet and Roley Moley. Although I’m not entirely convinced that Beauregard isn’t involved in some way.
Nell: What are you wittering on about?
Me: Dave being a spy.
Nell: David is playing the game ‘I Spy’. The puppies love it.
Me: Why is he closing his eye then?
Nell: ‘I spy with my little eye’. Do keep up.
Me: We never close one eye when we play it.
Nell: Then you’re not playing it properly.
Me: But nobody else is playing with him. My poor Big Brave Beautiful Boy. He looked over at you and you were just sleeping.
Nell: I was pretending to be asleep.
Me: Why?
Nell: It gives me time to think of the answer. Honestly you really don’t know how to play, do you?
Me: But how is Dave to know you are playing?
Nell: David has to wait. He must Exercise Patience.
Me: That’s ever so boring.
Nell: No, it isn’t. You never know when the answer is coming and you never know where it is coming from.
Me: It will be coming from you, Nell. There’s nobody else in the room.
Nell: You’re here.
Me: Yes, but I’m not playing.
Nell: David doesn’t know that.
Me: I didn’t even hear what the something begins with, Nell. I don’t have a chance.
Nell: That’s your own fault.
Me: No, it isn’t.
Nell: You need to listen more. ‘Bacon!’
Me: Why did you suddenly say that?
Nell: The answer is always bacon. David sees it everywhere.
Me: Yes. Sorry.
