The week went by so fast, and it was the day the Hanley’s were to arrive. I was nervous and could not sit still. Anisah was having a lot of trouble fixing my hair that morning.
‘Sit still or your hair will look terrible. We need to make a good impression with the Hanley’s, especially young George.’ I rolled my eyes and tried to sit as still as I could. Mother came in and laid out one of my new dresses to wear for the day. It was one of the lighter dresses. She wanted me to save the heavy dark green linen dress trimmed with delicate hand-woven lace for a dinner later that week. Today’s dress was blue, black and silver. There were little purple flowers embroided on the front of the dress. It was quite pretty, and not too heavy. I worked on the fires before dressing to make sure the house wa
