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Jas phoned. Tearing herself away from Tom for a second. She said, “Have you told her you are not going, yet?”

“No, I try but she takes no notice. I told her that it is a very important time for me as I am fourteen and poised on the brink of womanhood.”

“On the what?”

Jas can be like half girl, half turnip. I said, “Do you remember what our revered headmistress, Slim, said at the end of summer term? She said, ‘Girls, you are poised on the brink of womanhood, which is why I want to see no more false freckles painted on noses. It is silly and it isn’t funny or dignified.’”

“False freckles are funny.”

“I know.”

“Well why would Slim say they weren’t?”

“Jas.”

“What?”

“Shut up now.”