“I know that!” the first girl insisted. “I mean, are you going to dress like a girl all the time?” she asked, adding “Will you be a boy or a girl at school tomorrow?”
“Er… I don’t know.” Billy replied. At that moment, Mrs Postlethwaite and another younger lady stepped over to where Billy, Alice, and the handful of other evacuees stood chatting and told them to say hello to Miss Wainwright.
“Hello, children.” Miss Wainwright smiled, looking at each of their faces. She introduced herself as one of the teachers from the school they’ll be attending before looking at Billy, smiling and saying, “And you must be Billy, the young ‘lady’ Mrs Postlethwaite has been telling me about?”
“I’m not a lady.” Billy grimaced.