“Billy’s guardian, Mrs Postlethwaite, doesn’t like boys so Billy has to try to be a girl instead… we all know he’s not a proper girl, but I trust you’ll all set a good example of how a young lady should conduct herself, and I hope you’ll all find it in your hearts to help Billy to learn to act as a young lady should.”
At his old school, Billy and all the other boys used to be intrigued by what it might be like in the girl’s half of the school. It was a place they all wanted to see but never wanted to enter. Well, now he knows and apart from it being full of girls, it’s much the same as the boy’s half of the school.