Select the correct text in the passage.
in this excerpt from anita desai's short story "games at twilight," which three sentences suggest that the children had completely
forgotten about ravi?
with a whimper he burst through the crack, fell on his knees, got up, and stumbled on stiff, benumbed legs across the shadowy yard
crying heartily by the time he reached the veranda so that when he flung himself at the white pillar and bawled, "deni denl den! " his
broke with rage and pity at the disgrace of it all, and he felt himself flooded with tears and misery
out on the lawn, the children stopped chanting. they all turned to stare at him in amazement. their faces were pale and triangular
dusk. the trees and bushes around them stood inky and sepulchral, spilling long shadows across them. they stared, wondering at
reappearance, his passion, his wild animal howling. their mother rose from her basket chair and came toward him, worried, annoye
saying, "stop it, stop it, ravi. don't be a baby. have you hurt yourself? " seeing him attended to, the children went back to clasping the
hands and chanting, "the grass is green, the rose is "
but ravi would not let them. he tore himself out of his mother's grasp and pounded across the lawn into their midst, charging at the
with his head lowered so that they scattered in surprise. "i won, i won, i won," he bawled, shaking his head so that the big tears flew.
"raghu didn't find me. i won, i "
it took them a minute to grasp what he was saying, even who he was. they had quite forgotten him. raghu had found all the others
ago. there had been a fight about who was to be it next. it had been so fierce that their mother had emerged from her hath
them change to another name than then badlaved