Mum said earlier what a lovely dress <br />you’re wearing.”<br />Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. “This?” she said. “But I’ve had this for years.”<br />It was a beige dress that would have looked better on an eighty year-old. Any eighty-year-old, man or woman.<br />“I think you’ve really grown into it,” Valkyrie said.<br />“I always thought it was a little shapeless.”<br />Valkyrie resisted the urge to say that was what she meant.