Georgina laughed.
“It’s no use, Aunt Marjory, you know I will never be that. But I promise you I will try very hard.”
“Well, after the excellent education you have had from the most distinguished and expensive Tutors in the country,” Lady Crawford retorted, “I should have thought that you would find nothing impossible.”
Georgina wanted to argue that what she had learnt from her Tutors had been the lessons that a boy would have enjoyed.
The knowledge she had gained would have been of great help to a man.
Now, she thought, to change herself completely into a woman was worse than any examination she had ever taken and the result, as far as she could see, would be one of complete failure.
“Now what we have to do,” Lady Crawford was saying, “is to go upstairs to your room where you will f
