The two girls were standing in front of a mirror that hung on the wall between the posters and taking off their hats.
They were certainly very different from any hats that Minella had ever seen before.
Nellie’s was covered with feathers and the one Gertie was wearing had huge pink roses and lilies-of-the-valley arranged in a wreath round the broad crown.
Their hair was swept up on their heads in a mass of curls and, when she looked at them, Minella felt that they might have stepped down to earth from a different planet.
Never had she imagined that anybody could have such tiny waists or gowns fitting so tightly over their breasts.
In relation to their waists their hips seemed just a magnificently rounded sweep and their gowns billowed out at the hem, showing when they lifted them up a
