History Lessons
“She could hear Mr. Ellis coming down the line and cut her eyes at Missy, who stood just to her left and knew she was thinking the same thing: Would this head of staff be as bad as the last one?They had hated Beatrice Steelman, whose laziness had made Hartford House something of a joke among those who appreciated any kind of historical accuracy. Some of the girls had even chanced wearing eye shadow or sneaking a smoke when the director had been in her office talking on the phone to whomever it w...as she talked to in the middle of the day. Word had come yesterday that she'd been let go and this new man, this Warren Ellis, would now be assuming her duties."Miss Primm, is it?" He was in front of her now and Lucy found herself looking at the front of an impeccably clean blue jacket. Her eyes traveled up and she felt herself gasp a bit. The face that looked at her was handsome, even underneath those horrible spectacles. When Missy had said the new head of staff was "some old guy," she'd figured he'd be in his sixties.MoreLess
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