Good Time Girl
Charlotte Hardy-Worthitt believed that even if a girl is flat on her back, she can still stand tall. She had been told that she had been orphaned when very young and that her unmarried uncle had taken her in and become her guardian although she nursed a slight suspicion that she may have been the result of one of her uncle’s wild oats with a woman long disappeared. Like most girls of her class, the young Charlotte (Lotte) had been packed off to boarding school which is usually a make or break experience. In Lotte’s case, it had been an excellent launch pad; successful boarders learn to be resourceful and resilient as well as being taught all the social graces so useful for making one’s way in society. Back in History the family had been …