A Visit to Matilda sChapter 4 Class Room Lesson
I was woken, as Mrs Danbury had promised, at six o’clock. It was the mustached ‘maid’ that had welcomed me on my arrival who unlocked the door to my room. “You should wash,” he said. “There is a jug and basin in the corridor. You can dispose of your pot through the sluice in the room beside the stairs. Then get dressed. Don’t take too long. It only upsets them.” I hadn’t used the chamber pot during the night. I’d not felt the need until he mentioned it, at which point I became desperate to...