stephanie did not get a sticker ( because her card was yellow ) though she doubted her mother would notice the difference , and then , just when she was thinking about her mother not noticing the sticker which you were supposed to get if you were good all day and which she had never yet received in three weeks in the seahorse classroom , stephanie noticed the tall figure of her grandmother , granny hilda , standing under the ramada near a towering eucalyptus tree , in the place where her mother should have been .