If you thought you were going to mess it up at a higher figure then its time to impose a lower limit on yourself?
I fly out of a strip that allthough it has 2 runways in the winter we can only use one so we regularily fly in very stiff crosswinds. The 152 I own is easily controllable at 25kts at 90d to the runway and I have put it down a couple of times approaching 30kts. But I fly 350plus hours a year and have over 1000hrs in that particular plane if I was in something new I would work up the experiance over time.
The twin is very sensative and exceeding the limits has the potential to pull the undercarriage off as has happened to someone in it this year!