Some young people were out under the wateroaks playing croquet croquet .

They chatted chat incessantly : about the things around them ; their amusing adventure adventure out in the water -- it had again assumed assume its entertaining aspect ; about the wind , the trees , the people who had gone to the Cheniere ; about the children playing croquet croquet under the oaks , and the Farival twins , who were now performing perform the overture to “ The Poet and the Peasant . ”