For a minute, Allison thought she'd developed some kind of weird psychic power after all.  The way this Mamie person had both completely ignored everything she'd said, and then finally all but knocked her to the floor in her fixation on the room, Allison had concluded that she must be invisible.<br/><br/>As it turned out, of course, the woman was just incredibly rude.<br/><br/>She desperately wanted to leave and never speak to the woman ever again, but she felt a sudden stab of pity for the manager; and in any case, Blake seemed to want to get people to leave also.  So she decided to make one last effort before vanishing back to her room.  As soon as she caught the tiniest pause in the woman's stream of conversation (she had to breathe sometime... right?) she spoke up in a strong, firm voice.<br/><br/>"Ma'am, you should really get your little boy to bed.  It can't be good for him to be awake at this hour, and he might catch a cold standing in this chilly hallway.  I'm sure you're much too conscientious a parent to want that."<br/><br/>And she turned on her heel and went back to her room.