I was very angry and I looked hard at the glass and my eyes got all hot and strange. Then said " push it over ..." and the glass fell over!
'Children often get strange idea: Miss Honey thought to herself. But she put the empty glass in the middle of the table and said, 'Oh? Can you do it again , Matilda?'
Matilda sat at her desk and looked hard at the glass on the table. Slowly, the strange feeling in her eyes got stronger and stronger. Again and again , inside her head, she shouted the words, ' Fall over!' And the glass moved... and fell over! Miss Honey's mouth dropped open. She looked across at the child who was sitting behind the desk.
Matilda smiled. 'I did it much quicker that time.' Miss Honey shut her eyes to calm herself, then she opened them and said to Matilda , 'Will you come back and have tea at my little house? I want to talk to you