Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky.
She’d read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren’t supposed to.
The dress has been owned by many sisters before her and has been taken up, taken out, taken down and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.
The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody’s wife. They were also expected to be able to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.
‘You could say this advice is priceless, she (Miss Tick) said. ‘Are you listening?’
‘Yes,’ said Tiffany.
‘Good. Now, if you trust in yourself…and believe in your dreams…and follow your star……You’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.
