Summary

Shh

This chapter tells about the first time Heidi heard So B. It say the word "soof". Bernadette decided to allow Heidi and So B. It to take a bus to get a part for the broken vacuum cleaner. When the bus drove up, So B. It had a nervous breakdown on the corner. When Heidi finally got her inside, So B. It could not be consoled until Bernadette handed her an imaginary baby. Once she had the imaginary baby in her arm So B. It lay down in the middle of the floor and said something incomprehensible. When Heidi got down on the floor to hear what So B. It was saying, she heard, “soof”.

Heidi relentlessly tries to get her mother to explain to her what “soof” means... with no success. She may have eventually given up had she not...