She sent me to my room.
"You will stay there until your father comes home this noon," she said.

"This is a matter for him to settle." _Father_! And I never even thought of her going to _him_ with it.

She was always telling me never to bother Father with anything, and I knew she didn't usually ask him anything about me.

She settled everything herself.

But _this_--and the very thing I didn't want her to ask him, too.