The prospect of a holiday in the Lake District appalled and enraged him. The car journey had made him feel sick; his small brother had received unfair quantities of attention. His very natural response was to pull Lucy’s hair and scratch her cheek. In reply, she had pushed him hard, sending him reeling into the bookshelves, where a sharp edge had caught his brow and raised a spectacular bruise.Simmy had grabbed her charge and removed her from the house entirely.‘It wasn’t my fault,’ Lucy repeated, as they walked blindly down the hill towards Bowness.‘No it wasn’t. He’s a little beast.’This surprised Lucy into silence for a moment. ‘A little beast,’ she murmured in wonder. ‘Yes.’‘That’s the trouble with B&B – you never know what the people might be like. Nearly all of them are very nice, but sometimes there’s trouble.’ ‘Sometimes there’s a little beast.’Dimly it occurred to Simmy that in the current era of universal approval and respect, such pejorative descriptions were taboo.
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