Chapter I The Dimplesmithy
Grown people have such an exasperating way of saying, "Now, when I was a little girl—"
Then, just as you prick up the little white ears of your mind for a story, they finish, loftily, "I did—or didn't do—so-and-so."
It is certainly an underhand way of suggesting that you stop doing something pleasant, or begin doing something unpleasant; and you would not have thought that Sara's dear mother would...
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