What you do speaks louder than anything you say.
Proper young ladies ALWAYS sit with their knees together!
When I was a girl a proper young lady would NEVER be seen without her gloves.
Children should be seen and not heard.
Grandma Abbott bustled about making tea. All the while she muttered to herself and then looked over her shoulder to make sure I was listening to every word.
I was, of course, but it was an act. Inside I was a rebel. Inside, I was the BAD girl mamas warned their baby boys about. On the outside I obeyed.
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This is in response to Velvet Verbosity’s 100 Word challenge: ACT.
p.s. hubby laughed when I read this to him and reminded me that there was NO bad girl in me – the nuns (and Grandma Abbott) buried it so far down inside that he has not been able to get her out in the 45 years he’s known me. He says that like it’s a bad thing – haha