" that moment, she and her daughter looked very alike. Rosie pulled some embroidered silk slippers from under her bed and shoved her feet into them. ‘It’ll be dark soon, you know,’ she grumbled. ‘You said I wasn’t to be out alone after dark.’ ‘You won’t be alone,’ her mother said crisply. ‘Stanley is waiting for me outside. He and I will go with you.’ ‘No!’ Rosie stamped her foot. ‘No, no, no! I won’t have you and Stanley watching, Mother! It’d be too, too embarrassing! Stanley would tell everyone all about it — you know what a gossip he is. He blabbed to everyone "

― Emily Rodda , Eliza Vanda's Button Box: Cbca Notable Book 2022