`` now , if you are done having your ass kicked , might i suggest you shower and then join me for the afternoon lecture on the element of water ? '' `` you 're impossible to read , do you know that ? '' a little girl in a red dress smiled at her as she skipped away . a few minutes later mrs. parker entered the dining room . `` look to her fingers and tell me she did n't lick them clean . '' remember i told you i was scared right down to my toes that night ? '' 