should-have-been-sleeping

Updated: May 25, 2025

So what she should do with him for those should-have-been-sleeping ten minutes and a half, she did not know. All of which drew from Aunt Hannah the astounding exclamation of: "Oh, my grief and conscience, Billy, if you aren't the the limit!" Which, indeed, she must have been, to have brought circumspect Aunt Hannah to the point of actually using slang.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Miss Billy — Married