"Devising games ?" I protested.

"Making up new ones, you mean ?" "Exactly," she answered.

"Don't you ?" Then I remembered the kindergarten, and the "material" devised by Signora Montessori, and guardedly replied: "To some extent." But most of our games, I told her, were very old--came down from child to child, along the ages, from the remote past.
"And what is their effect ?" she asked.

"Do they develop the faculties you wish to encourage ?" Again I remembered the claims made by the advocates of "sports," and again replied guardedly that that was, in part, the theory.
"But do the children LIKE it ?" I asked.

"Having things made up and set before them that way?
Don't they want the old games ?" "You can see the children," she answered.