Doris Phipps and Lily-Annie Pollett, though they looked incredibly plain and depraved in oyster satin… — Angela Thirkell

Doris Phipps and Lily-Annie Pollett, though they looked incredibly plain and depraved in oyster satin blouses, tight-seated, bell-bottomed trousers, red nails on dirty hands, greasy curls hanging on their shoulders, a cigarette for ever glued to their lips, were really very nice, kind girls.

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