Everything was beautiful and good, except Laura. She had broken her promise to Pa. Breaking a promise was as bad as telling a lie. Laura wished she had not done it, but she had done it....
"Well," he said at last, "I hardly know what to do Laura. You see, I trusted you. It is hard to know what to do with a person you can't trust. But do you know what people have to do to anyone they can't trust?"
"wh-at?" Laura quavered.
"They have to watch him." said Pa.
"so I guess you must be watched. Your ma will have to do it. So tomorrow you stay where Ma can watch you. You are not to go to out of her sight all day. If you are good all day, then we will let you try again to be a little girl we can trust."
From the book "On The Banks of Plum Creek", Laura Ingalls Wilder
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