Miss Wainwright says farewell to each and everyone of her girls as they leave and asks Alice and Billy if they’re looking forward to summer. “Hopefully this awful war will be over soon and you’ll both be able to go home which means I won’t see you again.” their teacher says with a smile and a frown.
“I hope we do Miss.” Billy says. “I mean… I want the war to end and I want to go home, but I like being in your class too.” he tells her, adding. “I don’t think I’d like to go back to the boy’s class.”
Miss Wainwright smiles at Billy and places her hands gently on his shoulders. “And I can see why.” she smiled as she arranged his dainty little sleeves, puffing them out to make them look as pretty as possible.