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“Would you like to come and play with me?” Eloise blurted out. Immediately she wished she had not, because she was eleven, not a baby, and she could hear Colin snickering and Eloise’s throat started to burn and her eyes turned swimmy and she wished, for once, she would think before she spoke.
“Oh!” the little girl said, her eyes widening. Then she smiled, her top teeth digging into her lower lip. There was a pleasing little gap between them, Eloise noticed. “I should like that very much. Only — you must tell me if it seems like my bonnet will fly off again. I would not like to hit any more boys on horses.”
Eloise heard a strange buzzing noise in her ears. She agreed with a smile, and she and Penelope went off to play, leaving Colin still sitting there in the mud of Hyde Park.
OR: Eloise watches Penelope's bonnet knock Colin off his horse, and it takes several long years before she realizes she is in love. Even longer before she realizes Penelope loves her back.