Warming myself at Dad's fire

Sitting on the radiator in my mum’s study, I exclaimed: “Freezing cold!”

–After a while.

Taking me up in her arms, she goes slowly downstairs.

“Voilà!” she said.

Oh, thank goodness! My dad has made a fire in the stove.

"Don't get too close, sweetie."
"I won't, Mum."