This is similar to the one they made to his mother.

"He's going to make an awful case of it to his mother."

I know you're fond of the boy, but that's not reason enough to stay here and make a commitment to his mother.

Most weeks, she does not even have the 72 cents to make a 10-minute phone call to her mother.

What will happen to the promise he made to his mother?

It was horrible like making love to my own mother.

He also makes a toast to his mother at the end of each show.

Perhaps I should never have made that promise to your mother.

Completing college was a promise he made to his mother.

He had made a certain kind of love to my mother before she went away.