By 1942, when Caroline was twenty and (1) ... the life of a middle- aged matron for three years, she was so desperate that she was seriously planning to run away. She (2) ... reading (although she (3) ... what was almost an addiction to women’s magazines, her favourite being Woman & Beauty), she hated sewing, and her only real pleasure was playing the piano. She (4) ... quite a talented pianist at school, and (5) ... several medals at classical musical festivals, but it was not the music of Chopin and Bach and Brahms that filled the house now, but songs from the hit parade. ‘In the Mood’ was to be heard particularly frequently coming from the music room. Caroline (6) ... that she was growing a little tired of the tune; Jacqueline (7) ... both hands cut off rather than stop playing it at length daily after that. She had very few opportunities for revenge.