26/40 You're a kind of fairy godmother to this little Cinderella. Only Jean must remember that it isn't very nice to come back to drudgery after an hour or two at the ball," and she gave an unpleasant laugh. "Cinderella had a happy ending. She wasn't left to the drudgery, but reigned with the prince in the palace." "It's hardly polite surely," Muriel put in, "to liken poor little Jean to a cinder-witch." Jean laughed and held out a foot in a shabby slipper. |