Flame-Coloured Taffeta
“After only three or four hours’ sleep, she woke up gummy-eyed and still leaden with tiredness, but at the usual time, as though something in her had remembered, even while she slept, that the events of the past days were not yet over, and she must be stirring again before anything else could happen while she was not there.
Aunt Selina was still stretched upon her bed, moaning faintly with her bottle of Hungary Water in her hand, when Damaris having brushed the worse of last night’s mud off her skirts, looked in on her. No lessons today.
She ran downstairs and out of the house. She longed to be away instantly to the Wise Woman’s cottage. But her sense told her that if she was missing at breakfast time, after what had happened the evening before, her father really would begin to suspect that something very odd was going forward, and then he would certainly put his foot down and refuse to let her go out alone. It might even end in a beating, which she would not so much mind, for he could... never bring himself to lay it on properly, and in being locked in her room, which would be a disaster.MoreLess
Aunt Selina was still stretched upon her bed, moaning faintly with her bottle of Hungary Water in her hand, when Damaris having brushed the worse of last night’s mud off her skirts, looked in on her. No lessons today.
She ran downstairs and out of the house. She longed to be away instantly to the Wise Woman’s cottage. But her sense told her that if she was missing at breakfast time, after what had happened the evening before, her father really would begin to suspect that something very odd was going forward, and then he would certainly put his foot down and refuse to let her go out alone. It might even end in a beating, which she would not so much mind, for he could... never bring himself to lay it on properly, and in being locked in her room, which would be a disaster.MoreLess
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