The proper order of things

Now the house was dark and quiet again.  The end result of a life of proper deci
sions.  Wait, was that--could it be?  I rushed down the hallway but stopped shor
t of the bedroom door.  How could I have been so stupid?  Something awful was on
 the other side.  I stood there paralyzed with terror.  Now the house was dark a
nd quiet again.  The end result of a life of proper decisions.  Wait, was that--
could it be?  I rushed down the hallway but stopped short of the bedroom door.  
How could I have been so stupid?  Something awful was on the other side.  I stoo
d there paralyzed with terror.  Now the house was dark and quiet again.  The end
 result of a life of proper decisions.  Wait, was that--could it be?  I rushed d
own the hallway but stopped short of the bedroom door.  How could I have been so
 stupid?  Something awful was on the other side.  I stood there paralyzed with t
error.  Now the house was dark and quiet again.  The end result of a life of pro
per decisions.  Wait, was that--could it be?  I rushed down the hallway but stop
ped short of the bedroom door.  How could I have been so stupid?  Something awfu
l was on the other side.  I stood there paralyzed with terror.  Now the house wa
s dark and quiet again.  The end result of a life of proper decisions.  Wait, wa
s that--could it be?  I rushed down the hallway but stopped short of the bedroom
 door.  How could I have been so stupid?  Something awful was on the other side.
  I stood there paralyzed with terror.  Now the house was dark and quiet again. 
 The end result of a life of proper decisions.  Wait, was that--could it be?  I 
rushed down the hallway but stopped short of the bedroom door.  How could I have
 been so stupid?  Something awful was on the other side.  I stood there paralyze
d with terror.  Now the house was dark and quiet again.  The end result of a lif
e of proper decisions.  Wait, was that--could it be?  I rushed down the hallway 
but stopped short of the bedroom door.  How could I have been so stupid?  Someth
ing awful was on the other side.  I stood there paralyzed with terror.  Now the 
house was dark and quiet again.  The end result of a life of proper decisions.  
Wait, was that--could it be?  I rushed down the hallway but stopped short of the
 bedroom door.  How could I have been so stupid?  Something awful was on the oth
er side.  I stood there paralyzed with terror.  Now the house was dark and quiet
 again.  The end result of a life of proper decisions.  Wait, was that--could it
 be?  I rushed down the hallway but stopped short of the bedroom door.  How coul
d I have been so stupid?  Something awful was on the other side.  I stood there 
paralyzed with terror.  Now the house was dark and quiet again.  The end result 
of a life of proper decisions.  Wait, was that--could it be?  I rushed down the 
hallway but stopped short of the bedroom door.  How could I have been so stupid?
  Something awful was on the other side.  I stood there paralyzed with terror.  
Now the house was dark and quiet again.  The end result of a life of proper deci
sions.  Wait, was that--could it be?  I rushed down the hallway but stopped shor
t of the bedroom door.  How could I have been so stupid?  Something awful was on
 the other side.  I stood there paralyzed with terror.  Now the house was dark a
nd quiet again.  The end result of a life of proper decisions.  Wait, was that--
could it be?  I rushed down the hallway but stopped short of the bedroom door.  
How could I have been so stupid?  Something awful was on the other side.  I stoo