One for all and all for one rings most supreme and true in the family.
Who cares about clean stairs? No one ever looks at them? This was the attitude of Isabel.
So she ran out to play without doing her little chore.
The family was embarrassed when an unexpected visitor, her mother's esteemed friend-an invalid-was coughing and sneezing when she went up their dirty stairs.
Aih, aih Ouch Oih she went, as she also had to climb the stairs on her hands and knees.
Scared.
