``Otherwise I shall faint.'' Though the window on the stairwell was left on the latch there was always a peculiar smell in the room, a mixture of coke fumes from the hot-water pipes, peppermints and that pervasive mist of eau de Cologne sprayed so recklessly by Dawn Allenby.
Stella didn't wear a slip
Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she didn't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one just as she had bought her a brassiere after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume.
``Otherwise I shall faint.'' Though the window on the stairwell was left on the latch there was always a peculiar smell in the room, a mixture of coke fumes from the hot-water pipes, peppermints and that pervasive mist of eau de Cologne sprayed so recklessly by Dawn Allenby.</s>Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she didn't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one just as she had bought her a brassiere after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume.</s>Stella didn't wear a slip