She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time.
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He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned...
...But how could he manage to burn her dress? She’d have to not be wearing it, and that posed a certain challenge in and of itself... ↗