Reading progress update: I've read 40 out of 445 pages.
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
She’d become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she’d taken to it well. She’d sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she’d beat herself to death with her own umbrella.
As one of the few people on the planet who hates the Mary Poppins movie, I can’t begin to express how much I love Susan right now.
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