“Pss wss wss” is of course the way a three year old imitates whispering. And the way I still do. Shelley doesn’t do a very good job of looking after Lottie at this party, does she? I thought of this scene as a bellwether for her. Her slightly dotty behaviour is reined in afterwards.

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