The woman giggled at this and smiled at me.
I assumed nothing of the kind would actually happen.
However, I quickly discovered how very wrong my thinking was!
Things went fine for the first few days, without even a threat or scolding.
However, I began to fall into my usual routine of doing as I pleased and getting away with as much as I could.
I was soon to find out that my Mother’s friend was not a pushover.
I was also soon to find out that she could – and would – carry out the instructions she had been given to the letter.
One very wet morning, I was sternly warned to not get my clothes dirty while playing.
The rear yard was sopping wet and the bare patches on the lawn were muddy.
Needless to say, I did not stay clean for very long.