“Mam’zelle stared perplexedly at the girl before her. Why did she speak in this strange manner? And why did she keep calling her Mam? Just then Jennifer Mills, and her friend Barbara Thompson came over, along with Margaret Winters.”
“I have stared at a book pretending I couldn’t hear what was going on around me, too. If people think you can’t hear them, they talk as if you couldn’t. You can hear some pretty neat stuff that way.”
“Robin stared at her with his flat eyes and went back to sucking his wooly doggy that had flat eyes also, of sewn-on felt, because glass ones might find their way into Robin’s appendix and cause damage.”
“He slammed his door with a violence that seemed to shake the whole house. Then he sat on his bed and stared at the football pennants pinned to the front of the low-boy.”