One Game in Three Evenings

Every Saturday, Lena and her mother played a game with little wooden boats. Lena made hot chocolate. The game took almost two hours.

Then her mother started working on Saturdays. They played after dinner, but her mother was too tired. She wanted a shorter game. Lena wanted to keep playing their game.

The next Saturday, they tried again. Her mother could not play for two hours. But Lena did not want to start the game again next week.

Then Lena saw a tray, a flat thing to put things on. They played for twenty minutes. Then Lena put the game on the tray and put it away. She left the boats in the same places.

On Monday, they played a little more. On Wednesday, her mother was still thinking about the game. They played again, and her mother won.

Her mother asked to play another game. Lena said they could play tomorrow.