Assembly and morning prayers were treated seriously at Longton Hill and girls who were caught talking or even whispering in assembly were more often than not sent out of the hall immediately to stand in the vestibule, below the school clock. There, after an unpleasant wait of several minutes u...
First, she had been late for work. Then, she'd dropped a pile of plates on the way out of the kitchen, smashing the lot - and wasting four people's food. Mr. Wilson would not be pleased - and now she had been summoned to see him He was a miserable man at the best of times - ran the cafe with an i...