"Oh don't be daft, dear. It's me job. Yer family now, and no girl under my roof will be treated wrong like."

It could be said Lottie had a weakness for daughters and girls. Natural really, she had been one once. Women had to stick together in this brutal modern age.

"That goes for me daughters, daughters-in-law, and young Anne too. The Lace Curtain Brigade of Osway Street can flap all they like."