three-year-old girl. For some reason, I thought we needed to make some money. I decided to visit the neighbors, offering to clean houses for them for 30 cents. Everything went well. But one neighbor (A) telephoned my mother to let her know what we were doing. Р “Girls,” Mother asked, “why were you two going around the neighborhood telling people you would clean their houses?” Mother (B)没有生我们的气. But we said we didn’t do any such thing. Surprised and terribly hurt, Mother then told us that Mrs. Jones had just called and told (C) her we had been to her house. Р Faced with the truth, we admitted what we had done. Mother tried to explain why a fib (小谎) hurt, but she didn’t feel that we really understood. Then Mother asked, “Would you two like to go to see the movie The Matinee this afternoon?”
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