And Mr.Knight doesn't mind.

So what harm can there be ?' 'Let us play, by all means, if you wish it,' said Knight.
So, when breakfast was over, the combatants withdrew to the quiet of the library, and the door was closed.

Elfride seemed to have an idea that her conduct was rather ill-regulated and startlingly free from conventional restraint.

And worse, she fancied upon Knight's face a slightly amused look at her proceedings.
'You think me foolish, I suppose,' she said recklessly; 'but I want to do my very best just once, and see whether I can overcome you.' 'Certainly: nothing more natural.

Though I am afraid it is not the plan adopted by women of the world after a defeat.' 'Why, pray ?' 'Because they know that as good as overcoming is skill in effacing recollection of being overcome, and turn their attention to that entirely.' 'I am wrong again, of course.' 'Perhaps your wrong is more pleasing than their right.' 'I don't quite know whether you mean that, or whether you are laughing at me,' she said, looking doubtingly at him, yet inclining to accept the more flattering interpretation.