Lulu and the Surgery

Charlotte and Lulu came to the surgery every afternoon after school. Their mother Marline would smoke sirane cocktail cigarettes, interrogate him earnestly about health issues and slim diets. The girls were always catching some bug or other - their mother protested that lulu did it on purpose so she could stay home from school. Doctor cherry's heath surgery was miles from their new flat above a solicitor's office in pearley. And had to take two busses to get home. Often the doctor gave them a lift, driving out of his way, and he came in for a drink,. sometimes on sleety, dark evenings, when they all three coaxed him.