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Miss Roberts had some more to say. She flipped at the marks list with her first finger and then looked firmly at Alison, Sadie, Doris and Carlotta.
'You are all bottom', she said. 'Well we know someone has to be bottom, but nobody needs to be quite so far down as all of you are. Sit up, Sadie! Carlotta, there is no need to grin round the class like that. It isn't funny to get so few marks in any and every subject!'
Carlotta stopped grinning round and scowled. Not even her school uniform could make her look ordinary. She glared at Miss Roberts.
[Summer term at St Clare's]
'You are all bottom', she said. 'Well we know someone has to be bottom, but nobody needs to be quite so far down as all of you are. Sit up, Sadie! Carlotta, there is no need to grin round the class like that. It isn't funny to get so few marks in any and every subject!'
Carlotta stopped grinning round and scowled. Not even her school uniform could make her look ordinary. She glared at Miss Roberts.
[Summer term at St Clare's]