Join the Dots

From Uniform Girls 19, following on from Bringing it to Life . By the Wednesday of Christina’s week with Sir Richard, the pretence that she is there to assimilate the feel of her part as a Victorian maid has worn very thin, although it is still maintained superficially so as to provide each of them with a face-saving front behind which to hide. Without it, Sir Richard would be obliged to appear undisguised in the role of villainous lecher, and Christina as the star-struck hopeful that she is, ready to sacrifice all for her art — or if not for that, then for the promise of fame and fortune. Fortunately she has not made the mistake of demanding of Sir Richard, ‘What do you think I am !’; Sir Richard would doubtless have been unable to resist the cliched riposte, ‘We have established what you are , Madam; now we are merely haggling over your price.’ As it is, however, the maid still pretends that she...