And if you don't think, and let it out by accident, then they
say 'why don't you think?' It don't seem as though we could do
right. It makes one almost despair."
"And it isn't even as if they were always right themselves," I
pointed out to her. "When they knock over a glass it is, 'Who put
that glass there?' You'd think that somebody had put it there on
purpose and made it invisible. They are not expected to see a glass
six inches in front of their nose, in the place where the glass ought
to be. The way they talk you'd suppose that a glass had no business
on a table. If I broke it, then it was always, 'Clumsy little devil!
ought to have his dinner in the nursery.' If they mislay their
things and can't find them, it's, 'Who's been interfering with my
things? Who's been in here rummaging about?' Then when they find it
they want to know indignantly who put it there. If I could not find
a thing, for the simple reason that somebody had taken it away and
put it somewhere else, then wherever they had put it was the right
place for it, and I was a little idiot for not knowing it."
"And of course you mustn't say anything," commented Veronica. "Oh,
no! If they do something silly and you just point it out to them,
then there is always a reason for it that you wouldn't understand.
Oh, yes! And if you make just the slightest mistake, like what is
natural to all of us, that is because you are wicked and unfeeling
and don't want to be anything else.
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