Beauty had momentarily escaped his vigilance and enjoyed a mad romp after a squirrel before she was captured.

I told him I was rejoiced to find him in such good spirits, and asked him if he had not been having a jolly romp with the American carpenter's son, who lived in the Chinese house close by.

Now, as she came out into the square she saw that, however well Mr. Dagonet had borne their protracted romp, it had left his playmate flushed and sleepy; and she lifted Paul in her arms to carry him to the nearest cab-stand.

My regrets to the children that we couldn't finish our romp.