When Mary opened the door to let Edie in, the kitchen smelled to high heaven.
"Oh, my word," Edie yelled. "Leave the door open! Have you been changing Buzzy's papers?"
Susan answered, "Yes," shyly.
"Well, not enough. Take her and the box to the front room and put clean paper in the box.. Tear the paper up in small pieces. And come back here. I want to talk to you."
From the tone of her voice, Susan knew she was in trouble with her mother for lying about changing the papers in Buzzy's box. Some days Susan was in a hurry to go with her friends and the papers didn't get changed. Who would know? No playing with friends for one week was Susan's punishment for not changing the papers and three more weeks for lying.
The evening after supper, Susan was sent to bed early and Edie sat at the table having a cup of coffee. She was drawing a pen for Buzzy. She was going to build it herself, but how? Then a little voice broke the silence of the room.
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