Page 142 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold
P. 142
pants in the back, as he topped the last stair and hid behind the clock, from them all.
All Mother Stahlbaum saw of her Prince, when she returned to the banqueting table, were the remains of his food forage. And so she turned on Clara – and Clara knew that as far as her mother was concerned, Clara was to blame for everything.
Which made perfect sense to Clara – for wasn’t she always to blame?
128
