“Hello,” Mary said.
The bag sitting on the table in front of the woman blocked almost all of her except her face and a smile flashed across it when she looked up. Her blonde hair was tied loosely back from her forehead and it put her delicate, pretty features fully on view. The blue eyes definitely had a twinkle in them and the wide smile put dimples in her cheeks.
“Well hello to you,” she replied. “Can I help you?”
“I hope so,” Mary told her.
“Well that sounds intriguing for…” She stopped talking when she turned her head to look at the clock on the wall then carried on. “…for twenty minutes past seven in the morning. Do you want to come to the school?”
“In a manner of speaking,” Mary answered.
The woman laughed and the pretty sound was infectious.
“Sit down and tell me all about it
