Miss Tavistock returns with a blouse and some petticoats on hangers. “The secret of Pretty Kilting lies in the girly sweetness of each item of the boy’s clothing,” she observes. “Take this style of blouse, for example. It will clasp his brassiere and upper body in sweet silk-chiffon, almost transparent, with little girl details like this cute Peter Pan collar to bring out the slenderness of his neck and these darling puffed sleeves to cap his effeminate arms. Rather nice, don’t you think?”

“I love it,” is his mother’s reply, and Sinead is assigned the task of dressing him in it while they move on to his petticoats.