Sloane appeared a few minutes later but Jacinta was still nowhere to be seen. Alice-Miranda decided to check with Jacinta’s classmates. ‘Excuse me, Susannah,’ she said as she approached the older girl. ‘Have you seen Jacinta?’ Susannah shook her head. ‘She hasn’t been in class at all this morning. I saw her heading towards the office straight after the assembly but she hasn’t come back.’ Alice-Miranda was worried. After Jacinta’s awful time at Sainsbury Palace and her reaction when the girls had visited her at Wisteria Cottage, she wasn’t in a good way at all. If she’d been grilled by Miss Grimm for hours, Alice-Miranda could only imagine the state she’d be in now. ‘Come on, Millie, let’s go and find her.’ The tiny child tugged on Millie’s tunic sleeve. ‘But I’m starving,’ Millie said. ‘And it’s cheesy lasagne day.’ ‘I’ll come,’ Sloane offered. ‘Oh, all right,’ said Millie.
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