In some ways the good times you have with grown-ups are better than the ones you have by yourselves.

At any rate they are safer.

It is almost impossible, then, to do anything fatal without being pulled up short by a grown-up ere yet the deed is done.

And, if you are careful, anything that goes wrong can be looked on as the grown-up's fault.

But these secure pleasures are not so interesting to tell about as the things you do when there is no one to stop you on the edge of the rash act.
It is curious, too, that many of our most interesting games happened when grown-ups were far away.