Cold Hills

Waiting unhappily just outside the door, Lucy Corbett watched her friend fumbling up under her skirt for that token of schoolgirlishness, her navy blue knickers, and felt her heart sink. What Emma got, she would get in her turn, since the people seated round that table would see no reason to punish either of [...]

As it turned out, the sacrifice demanded of unfortunate girl whom Mr Barnett had sent to Mr Wulf’s room at lunchtime, she was after all only a messenger was quite unnecessary, because both Mr Barnett and Mr Wulf bumped into each other on the main staircase at the end [...]