And so through this dark world they fleet / Divided, till in death they meet.

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.

to skip the rope

persons […] not legal, nor habilitate to serve in Parliament,