Theatre Shoes
“Holly was not exactly vain but she liked nice things, and all through the term she had to look at Miriam, who was given the best of everything by Aunt Marguerite, but the best thing of all in Holly’s opinion was her attaché case. Not having an attaché case mattered much more to Holly than it did to Sorrel or to Mark. Holly was forgetful and could easily drop a thing and not notice it, and she was not very good at tying up a parcel. Almost every day she dropped a sandal or a tap shoe, or a sock ...somewhere in the Academy, and though at first people had been kind and helpful about it, now everybody groaned, “Oh, Holly!” When Holly woke in the mornings she made the most splendid resolutions. “When I go up to my class to-day I won’t drop anything. I’ll come with all the right things folded neatly inside my towel like Winifred showed me, and then everybody will say, ‘Well done, Holly!’” Unfortunately, these splendid resolutions never went beyond Holly’s bed. She generally left something behind in the bathroom as a start to the day, and then Hannah said: “Your head will never save your feet.”MoreLess
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