Mariana

Oh, here’s what I meant -

She scrambled into her country clothes – a blue shirt, grey flannel shorts, held up by a boy’s snake-buckle belt, gym shoes, and an ancient scarlet prep-school blazer with a stag’s head on the pocket, that Denys had bequeathed to her.

I think it’s a wonderful book for a young girl to read, on a rainy, rainy day (I guess I’m not, but we’ll ignore, yes?).

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