The story attributes humanlike qualities to  wind and sunlight as Laura looks around the Sheridan house: 

Little faint winds were playing chase in at the tops of the windows, out at the doors. And there were two tiny spots of sun, one on the inkpot, one on a silver photograph frame, playing too.

The inclusion of this figurative language captures Laura’s childlike perspective and is characteristic of Mansfield’s whimsical style in “The Garden Party.” Laura is imagining that the wind and the sunlight are “playing chase” with each other, which emphasizes how she naively views everything in her surroundings as potential sources of pleasure and entertainment. Moreover, as with the story’s description of the garden, the personification in this passage makes the Sheridan home feel alive, which adds to the sense that the upper-class Sheridan family is insulated from the suffering and death that working-class people often have to face. Indeed, it directly contrasts the dark, morbid imagery and mood later on in  the story, when Laura leaves the familiarity of the Estate for the Cottages.