Somebody had to do something.”

“What did she do to her?” I asked.

“She was running around behind me while I was trying to clean up your mess,” Vanessa said.

“It’s dangerous to have a kid running around near a hot stove.

If Dad had fixed that loose tile on the floor, she wouldn’t have tripped.”

“She was already sitting on the floor when I came downstairs.”

“Because she tripped,” Vanessa said.