but it did not make her forget her old dear dollhouse at home , as ordinary as it seemed when compared with this one , and she did not spend as many rainy afternoons playing with it-rearranging the furniture , lighting the stove and watching the chimneys smoke , pretending that there was a high tea going on or that there was to be a great dinner party for the queen-as she had before , even as an older girl of fifteen and sixteen .