You made a mistake.
You were trying to be a fine little man, but you went at it the wrong way.

You only made a mistake.

All of us do that, Billy.

The world grows that way.

When we make mistakes we can see them; that teaches us to be more careful the next time, and so we learn." "How wouldn't it be a mistake ?" "If you had told Aunt Margaret what you wanted to do, and asked her for the cookies she would have given them to you." "But I was 'fraid she wouldn't, and you ist had to have it." "Not if it was wrong for me to have it, Billy.