An after bedtime story

Not only is Nina not asleep; she's ready to join the party, emerging from her bedroom in her tiara, frilly skirt, and not much else, in time to greet her parents' guests: "Give Aunt Ruth a kiss goodnight-/ then back to bed you go, all right?" Nina grabs an iced cupcake then, emboldened, clowns for the assembly and tries bathing her doll in the punch bowl ("Get down, young lady! That's not how we act./ You're going to bed this instant, and that's...