What Now?

  Good Example

"Poor puppy."
 Deirdre leaned over the Pomeranian, lying in a pool of blood on the gravel road. She hadn't meant to run over Angus, but he was just so small...it was impossible for her to have seen him. Penelope ran out of Professor Lowman's house, her eyes full of tears.
 "Deirdre, no! Mrs. Lowman's going to kill us!"
 "Forget Mrs. Lowman, Penelope, she'll get over it. She was heartless enough to give that down-syndrome kid an F on his English essay." I put a reassuring hand on my little sister's back.
  "They're home tomorrow! Oh God, what are we going to do?"

Bad Example

 Oops. I hit the dog of the professor, Mrs. Lowman, who my sister Penelope and I had been house sitting for. Even worse, she and her husband got home tomorrow! What were we going to do? OH NOOOO!!!!!