It was the one her friend had called Betsy and when she saw the child on the floor, stifled a scream. I lifted the sleeping child to my arms, and holding a concealed knife against her body, told the frightened woman to follow me, in silence. She looked petrified, as she should be!
We were nearly across the empty floor before a clerk spotted us.
"It's all right. Our daughter just fainted. We know what to do." I thought for a moment the woman might cry out but my look froze her to silence. The three of us were outside and secure in my new van without further incident.