I had seen hundreds of them go there, and I had tried it myself, lots of times, and it WAS the sweetest place.

Seeing what I had done, I stopped breathless.

You have to beat most everything you teach a child right into it properly to keep it from making such a botch of things as that.
I hardly dared to peep at mother, but when I did, she took my breath worse than the mistake I had made.
Caught, she stood her ground.

She never paused a second.

Straight to him she went, holding out her hand, and I could see that it was red and warm from pressing the lace in the hot suds.