"Fine, take the week, but you still need to see that Maxine is not a girl to be feared." He shrugged a little. "I think that you should talk to her."
Ted felt that speaking to the girl about what she'd done and why it wasn't okay to do was better than just punishing her and saying nothing more about it. And it was best to hear that from somebody who actually felt like it was the wrong thing to do.
He still wasn't sure that the kid didn't have it coming.
"And you never know, maybe you'll discover that she had more of a reason for it than he was being mean."