(Imagine, if you will, the "fwip, fwip, fwip" of Maddie's tail...)

"Hurrah!" shouts Maddie as the door opens. She pirouettes. "You're home! You're home! I was so worried. I thought you'd be gone forever. But now you're home!" Maddie wags her tail fiercely.

"Maddie," I answer. "We were only next door for five minutes." I hold up a hand, fingers splayed, countable. "Five minutes."

"Five l-o-n-g minutes," says Maddie. "Now that you're home, have you got any treats?"

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