QUOTE : just finishing with her customers and coming back towards the big mahogany desk. ‘All done?’ she said briskly, holding out her hand for the form. ‘I’ll just check your answers and then you’d best run home and get your mother – I mean your aunt – to sign at the bottom here.’ Hetty sighed. ‘My aunt isn’t too flush right now,’ she said apologetically. ‘I don’t know that she’ll sign. My grandpa would, but he won’t be in Liverpool for another two weeks and I need the books to get my holiday task written so’s I can help out when I go aboard the Water Sprite. That’s the name of Grandpa’s canal