leaving him behind as she darts up the steps into the house.
Smiling, he follows her. His mother and father are in the kitchen,
and Charlie, bursting with the excitement of Norma's good news, blurts it out before she has a chance.
"She got an A! She got an A!" "No!" shrieks Norma. "Not you. You don't tell. It's my mark, and I'm going to tell."
"Now wait a minute, young lady." Matt puts his newspaper down and addresses her sternly. "That's no way to talk to your brother."
"He had no right to tell!" "Never mind." Matt glares at her over his warning finger.
"He meant no harm by it, and you musn't shout at him that way."
She turns to her mother for support. "I got an A—the best mark in class. Now I can have a dog?
You promised. You said if I got a good mark in my test. And I got an A. A brown dog with white spots.
And I'm going to call him Napoleon because that was the question I answered best on the test. Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo."
Rose nods. "Go out on the porch and play with Charlie. He's been waiting over an hour for you to come home from school."
"I don't want to play with him." "Go out on the porch," says Matt.
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