TEMPERATURE CONTROL

We were driving in the car and I turned off the heat. "Do you wonder why it's so warm in here?" Ellery asked with a little mischief in her voice.

"Did you turn on your heat?" I asked, referring to the control in the middle seat.

"Yes, but not today. It was the day we went to Andy's parents' house for Fourth of July." (eight months earlier) "'Cause I was so cold."

"Would you rather be too hot or too cold?" I asked her.

"You call it hot but I call it WARM," was her reply.