Every Woman for Herself
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The girls were hanging over the banisters in their pyjamas when I went up to the drawing-room floor.
‘You look like a flower fairy,’ Feeb said. ‘If there are green ones?’ she added doubtfully.
‘You’re very pretty,’ Clo agreed. ‘Mummy said you looked like a little ghoul in those baggy black things you used to wear.’ ‘My daddy says she looks like an abandoned nymph,’ Caitlin said. ‘Is that good?’ I thought it was … so long... as she didn’t get it wrong, and what he really said was ‘abandoned nympho’.
‘Em’s got a pretty dress too,’ Feeb said. ‘The vicar walked into the door-post when he saw her. Even Anne’s got her best denim shirt and trousers on!’ ‘We like to push the boat out at Rhymer Birthday Feasts.’ ‘Bran had his tea with us – he ate all the biscuits, but he let me hold Mr Froggy,’ Caitlin said importantly. ‘He says he hasn’t time for birthday dinners, he has to finish his book before anyone else gets in his head and interrupts.’ ‘And Walter was there, too,’ Feeb said.MoreLess
The girls were hanging over the banisters in their pyjamas when I went up to the drawing-room floor.
‘You look like a flower fairy,’ Feeb said. ‘If there are green ones?’ she added doubtfully.
‘You’re very pretty,’ Clo agreed. ‘Mummy said you looked like a little ghoul in those baggy black things you used to wear.’ ‘My daddy says she looks like an abandoned nymph,’ Caitlin said. ‘Is that good?’ I thought it was … so long... as she didn’t get it wrong, and what he really said was ‘abandoned nympho’.
‘Em’s got a pretty dress too,’ Feeb said. ‘The vicar walked into the door-post when he saw her. Even Anne’s got her best denim shirt and trousers on!’ ‘We like to push the boat out at Rhymer Birthday Feasts.’ ‘Bran had his tea with us – he ate all the biscuits, but he let me hold Mr Froggy,’ Caitlin said importantly. ‘He says he hasn’t time for birthday dinners, he has to finish his book before anyone else gets in his head and interrupts.’ ‘And Walter was there, too,’ Feeb said.MoreLess
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