ABSTRACT
You may have known some anxious mother who seemed able to build a catastrophe out of the simplest, most ready-to-hand materials. If she went to the store and left the front door open, the children might wander into the house for a drink of water. Then they might want to explore the medicine cabinet above the washbasin. There might be some of those pills Uncle Henry took the time he had the spasms. If they took those pills, it might make them sick. If she didn’t get home in time, they would be dead. The poor woman could have them all dead and buried before she’d walked a single block.
