At five after eleven, a bunch of little kids came wandering down the street. They were all about ten or eleven years old, and most of them carried trick-or-treat shopping bags. Some of them had Hallowe'en masks on.
They started to make the turn toward the schoolyard. Judy said, "Hey, you kids. Take off."
One of them, wearing a red mask, turned to look at her. "Who, us?"
"Yes, you! Stay out of that street. Go on down that way."
"The subway's this way," objected the kid in the red mask.
"Who cares? You go around the other way."
"Listen, lady," said the kid in the red mask, aggrieved, "we got a long way to go to get home."
"Yeah," said another kid, in a black mask, "and we're late as it is."
"I couldn't care less," Judy told them callously. "You can't go down that street."