"Why not?"
He stood in his little kimono arousing the sympathy of his parents and further arousing Mary's impatience--then he said:
"The water was dirty, it was full of soap-suds."
"When you're not sure what you're saying--" Mary began, but Nicole interrupted.
"Stop it, Mary. If there were dirty suds in the water it was logical to think it was dirty. His father told him to come--"