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From Blushes Supplement 11 with Lucie Martin Uncle Robert always came to visit during the first or second week of school holidays. Janet hoped it would be the first week since, as the days of the second week passed, the tension within her mounted unbearably. Silly, though, to say that she hoped. She feared. What she really hoped was that he would never come at all. He wasn’t actually her uncle, she knew. No more than Aunt Esther was a real aunt. Ever since the age of 10, Janet knew she had been fostered out and the terms Uncle and Aunt were merely used as a matter of convenience. Not truly belonging, gave the girl a sense of isolation and loneliness. Through her early teens, she turned in upon herself; became secretive and shy and found it difficult to make friends. Now that she was 17, things had not improved. If anything, they were worse. Janet became more secretive, too. She would never have dreamed of telling anyone about th...

A photo-story from Janus 44 featuring Lucie Martin, who you might recognise from The Scarecrow . That was what Lucie’s mother had said, in highly moralistic tones. ‘A most peculiar state of affairs.’ She had asked Lucie, jokingly, if her new boss fancied her and Lucie had answered, giggling, ‘I think they both do.’ Mrs Martin’s face had quickly assumed a very unjoking look; which perhaps was not surprising when you knew that Lucie’s new employers were man and wife. Lucie decided to shut up. She didn’t really know that Liz Rogers fancied her, it was just some of the looks she got. She told her mother she had been joking and Mrs Martin said it wasn’t a very funny joke. Very soon, of course, things were to happen that Lucie certainly couldn’t tell her mother about. Things that were very peculiar indeed . Liz and Damian Rogers had a smart little boutique and Lucie had been thrilled to get the job working there. She was only 17 a...