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Introducing Miss DriscollChapter 10
The audience had fallen so silent that the long curtains covering the open windows of the school hall could be heard flapping against the glass, as if even the cool breeze of the autumn evening was desperate to take part in the evening’s events. Over a hundred parents, grandparents and strangers rustled their raffle tickets, willing the black ink to magically rewrite itself into the number 500. The sighs, tuts and cursing of all those disappointed men was matched by the relieved smirks of...