we are on a rescue mission, not stealing from the candy jar, honest

The head librarian's daughter, who's around eleven or twelve, I think, and an assistant librarian and I played pretend today, you know, like kids do. Crawling around on the floor, talking in bad fake British accents, riding the elevator up and down repeatedly, hiding from bad guys in the mop closet. I'd forgotten how much fun that can be. Sometimes I think it's sad that people start feeling too grown-up or too self-conscious to play around like that, just imagination and a couple other people and a willingness to look sort of ridiculous to outsiders, once they get to be teenagers.