Open Post!
Mary is going through the Mansion looking for the plothole, because she needs warm clothes for a boy of twelve and certainly doesn't have those herself.
She's still flushed and happy, having just had the time of her life, and soaking wet and her pink dress is covered with mud and smears of green algae; and she has lake weed in her hair, which is still down (when it's unpinned and -bound, it comes halfway down her back, though few people have ever seen it so), and, in general, she looks an awful and utter mess. A smiling awful and utter mess, humming to herself as she makes her way down to the main room.
She's still flushed and happy, having just had the time of her life, and soaking wet and her pink dress is covered with mud and smears of green algae; and she has lake weed in her hair, which is still down (when it's unpinned and -bound, it comes halfway down her back, though few people have ever seen it so), and, in general, she looks an awful and utter mess. A smiling awful and utter mess, humming to herself as she makes her way down to the main room.