this excerpt from Anita Desai's short story "Games at Twilight," which three sentences suggest that the children had completely forgotten about Ravi? With a whimper he burst through the crack, fell on his knees, got up, and stumbled on suff, benumbed legs across the shadowy yard, artly by the time he reached the veranda so that when he flung himself at the white pillar and bawled. "Dens Den Denr his voice broke ge and pity at the disgrace of it all, and he felt himself flooded with tears and misery it on the lawn, the children stopped chanting. They all turned to stare at him in amazement Their faces were pale and tangular in the e trees and bushes around them stood inky and sepulchral, spilling long shadows across then they stared, wondering at his passion, his wild animal howling Their mother rose from her basket chair and came toward him, worried, annoyed, saying "Stop it. Don't be a baby. Have you hurt yourself seeing him attended to the children went back to clasping their hands and charming The een, the rose is red Ravi would not let them. He tore himself out of his mother's grasp and pounded across the lawn into their midst charging at them i ad lowered so that they scattered in surprise. won, I won, I won," he bawled, shaking his head so that the big bears flew "Raghu dont ook them a minute to grasp what he was saying, even who he was. They had quite forgotten him. Raghu had found all the others longa ere had been a fight about who was to be it next it had been so fierce that their mother had emerged from her bath and made them ch another game. Then they had played another and another. Broken mulberries from the tree and eaten them. Helped the driver wash the en their father returned from work. Helped the gardener water the beds till he roared at them and swore he would complain to their pa parents had come out, taken up their positions on the cane chairs. They had begun to play again, sing and chant. All this time no one membered Ravi. Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. Clean Reset Na