'I was always thought, as a young person, to have a rather fine voice,' Miss Teresa Glencosset was saying in the well-rounded tones familiar to her students. 'There was talk of my undertaking a singing career. But it was considered by my parents to be a hazardous future for a young woman, and common-sense prevailed.'

She directed her wolfish smile swiftly around the company assembled in the Green Room. 'So my little annual foray into G and S is for me a small acknowledgement of "what might have been".'

'What would you have sung if you had turned pro?' someone asked. Miss Glencosset raised thoughtful eyebrows and regarded a poster of last year's Pirates absently.

'Opera, I think. I always felt I had the presence for it.'

'Makes a bloody formidable Katisha, anyway,' Stephen Harcourt muttered to his neighbour. 'I blench every time she advances on me. Never know whether she's going to embrace me or swallow me.'

Jasper Spenlow stretched his arms above his head and yawned. A general sense of movement replaced the inertia that had itself replaced an outpouring of energy on stage throughout the evening. After a week of rehearsals, Jasper felt that musically, at least, Mikado was progressing according to schedule. Little Dulcet Merridew collected the coffee cups (that was Dulcet for you, always the willing slave), and carted them off to the tiny kitchen; Jasper's wife, Maggie, picked up scripts and vocal scores and strode out again on to the stage to make sure that nothing of value had been left.

He watched her; no amount of activity, no rehearsal traumas, ever seemed to recue that nervous energy to the level at which most people existed. She would be that way until bedtime; and then, as her head hit the pillow, she would be off into sleep, storing up more energy for what the morrow might bring. He envied her.

The Reverend Charles Culbert, vicar of this parish of St Edmund, gave out a sigh and rose from the depths of the one comfortable chair. With his long, angular legs and a perpetually solemn expression, he was rather too like a praying mantis to be taken seriously out of his usual milieu. In the pulpit he had a certain distant charm, as if by being physically lifted above the common people in the pews below he had somehow achieved a sort of spiritual loftiness; why he found the annual romp of the Gilbert and Sullivan production so attractive, Jasper had never understood. On the face of it he was no actor. But something clicked once the costume and the grease paint were on; then the Rev Mr Culbert came to life, and there was something about the sight of their vicar representing the morally devious Pooh-Bah that gave the groundlings particular pleasure.

Culbert looked across the room to where Molly de Vance was discussing costumes with Mary Harcourt, whose nimble fingers came into their own at performance time. Molly was standing with her back towards him, and after a moment he turned, nodded to Jasper and the others who were preparing to leave, and went out into the night.

He walked slowly towards the rectory, which would be clammy and unwelcoming because he had forgotten to build up the wood stove, and because there would be no one there to greet him. It was a matter of astonishment to him that after a lifetime spent in almost monastic seclusion (of his own choice, for he was basically a solitary man) he should recently have developed a strange craving for human company.

The evening was pleasantly cool; but it is likely that he would not have noticed had icicles hung by the wall. For the Rev Charles was prey to emotions until now unknown to him. There had been (he recalled this dimly as down a long corridor of time) a young lady, earnestly bespectacled, for whom he had felt affection during his final university year. They had drunk coffee together, walked a couple of times across the campus, and then — why, he could not now remember — lost touch with each other. But that gently warm, wholly chaste relationship had nothing to do with the extraordinary and highly alarming sensations now consuming him in a most improper manner.

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stars, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice ...' he yearned. But the night was silent, give or take a strident red wattle bird or two, and the roar of Dave Shafto's motor bike as it sped away from the theatre.

Young Shafto's mind, like all Gaul, was divided three ways. In one compartment were the pages and pages required to be learnt before he could claim to have the role of Nanki-Poo under his belt; in another he maintained a kind of human computer that listened to the volume of sound coming from his vehicle and analysed it, piston-stroke by piston-stroke; and in the third was a dark cloud of foreboding that he tried hard to ignore, but which was coming closer, growing ever more threatening, reducing him to frightened, shaming apprehension.

In defiance, shaking a metaphorical finger at fate, he revved the engine and shot through the sleepy town at full speed, avoiding a confrontation with the police by seconds.

Simon Lee, product of an English mother and Chinese father, locked the theatre door and shook it to make sure. As president of the society this year he took his duties very seriously. He opened his car door, singing in a pleasant baritone voice Three little girls from school are we ...' It struck him as quite odd that this mock-Japanese comedy, relating back to a time when the Japanese were simply people who lived a long way away and wore funny clothes, should still be popular in a society that had seen its fill of the horrors of a militaristic regime storming down through the islands of the Pacific.

He switched to 'to make the punishment fit the crime ...' and remembered, briefly, his father, whose contact with the Japanese had involved punishment where no crime had been committed. Mr Lee senior had died of it.

Stephen and Mary Harcourt walked home. It was only five minutes, door to door, and it had been a long and busy day. Mary did complicated calculations in her head, five metres of this, ten of that, and a good length of something for the sashes — 'obis' they called them. Mary did crossword puzzles, so she knew the word well. 'Light blue on purple looks rather nice,' she said, but Stephen didn't answer.

He was engrossed in his own thoughts. This was a bad time for 'Mikado' and his business interests to collide. He enjoyed the part of Koko (saw something of his own duplicity in it, if he was honest), but with this big property development just coming to the boil it was a nuisance to have to give a part of his mind to the frivolity of a Savoy Opera. 'Tit-willow,' he hummed; 'tit-willow ... tit-willow!'

'The girls are good,' Mary said as they pushed open the garden gate. She meant the school-girl trio. 'Pattie's a natural, don't you think?'

He grunted. 'Not so keen on the Percy girl. Sings sharp.'

'That's just nerves. She'll do well. And Corinne ...'

'Pretty girl! Sympathetic. Should go far.' He based his knowledge of her on a brief encounter backstage during last year's Pirates when she had taken seriously the blackened nail — gained through a too hearty effort with the scenery — which Mary had failed to coo over.

As they closed the door behind them an ancient utility clattered past, loaded beyond good sense with the bower bird collection of bits and pieces that would go to make a successful show. 'Bingo' Rafferty, props man extraordinaire, had a Midas touch with junk, transmuting it into sets, furnishings and all the paraphernalia of theatricality. His weatherboard house, on the edge of town, was one of the local sights, almost lost beneath piles of this and heaps of that, an eyesore or an Ali Baba's cave according to one's standards.

A mile further on, where the landscape had been sculpted into conformity but was close enough to the raw bush to warrant the description of 'countryside', Miss Glencosset locked her garage door and made her way into the dark confines of the headmistress's house. Behind it stood the solid block that was St Chedwyn's School for Girls. In its dormitories lay seventy-five young ladies about to be unleashed on to the world; and in the morning another one hundred would be bussed in for the day's dose of learning.

St Chedwyn's was Miss Glencosset's glory, her raison d'etre, the emergence from a life spent in doing the will of others; sometimes, when there was no one looking, she patted the dark-brick walls to let them know how deeply she cared, how much they meant to her.

With Stephen Harcourt as Chairman of the Governors, Jasper Spenlow dividing his time as Director of Music between St C's and the state high school in the next town, and a staff bending to her every whim, she felt a sense of security, of power, of educational rightness, that carried her up to her bedroom in a cloud of euphoric pleasure.

Molly de Vance tied a gaily-coloured scarf over her red curls and waved crimson finger-nails towards Michael Kowalski, whose attempts to get her into his butcher's van for the short trip home had once again been neatly foiled. He stared after her with frustrated longing, his broad face hiding nothing of his feelings.

'Silly thing!' Molly thought as she clipped her way across the road. 'Do I look like a butcher's wife? Honestly!' She recalled for a fractional moment the other eyes that had regarded her across the room, and grinned to herself. She'd had a bit of fun teasing the poor old thing — but she certainly didn't see herself as a vicar's wife! Come to that, she wasn't that keen on the word 'wife', anyway. It had a narrow, constricting sound to it. Not like 'mistress', 'courtesan', even 'de facto'. Though from what she'd seen of her friends, 'de facto' wasn't much cop, either. It was still a man's world. Not easy for a woman to take her fun on the run, even in these permissive days. Not in this poky little town, at least. She wondered if it would be more to her liking in Sydney. Perhaps she should travel again ...

She reached her driveway and was aware that the butcher's van had taken a sudden turn of speed and shot past her. She grinned again, secretly. Silly twit! Couldn't take no for an answer.

CHAPTER 2

Bella Parkinson measured a neat distance from the edge of the window and carefully placed a handbill where it would be seen, using precise little pieces of sticky tape to secure it. Then she stepped outside the shop to check that it was properly aligned. That was Bella. She liked things to be just so.

Above her the newly painted shop front announced 'Chester Parkinson, Pharmacist'. It gave Bella much innocent pleasure to see it. It was a name with dignity; and Chester lived up to it. No one would ever call him 'Ches' — he was the sort of man who commanded respect, and this meant a great deal to her. She felt that if he had given her nothing else, he had bestowed a kind of status upon her; and she managed to be grateful for it. A mischievous imp whispered in her ear as she went to the back of the shop that she would have preferred a couple of children — or even a dog, a small one that she could cuddle on her knee. But she silenced the imp with a shake of her head. That was all behind them now. It was partly her fault, anyway. They should have talked it over before they married.

'Mrs Lambert's pills are ready,' Chester said, slapping a label on the packet. 'And we're nearly out of that new line of soap.'

'I'll put it on the order, Chester.'

It seemed to her sometimes that they were playing a game together, as if one day Chester had said, 'I know, let's pretend I'm a chemist, and we'll have a shop and you can be my assistant and we'll wear white coats and dole out pills and cough medicine and everyone will respect us.' And she had said, 'Oh, yes, Chester — let's!'

And so they had done, for nearly twenty years; and sometimes she wished that they could play something else for a change — fish and chips, or ladies' knitwear, or fruit and vegies. But that was silly, because Chester had qualified as a pharmacist all those years ago, and if you were a highly respected qualified pharmacist that was what you did.

So she enjoyed these few weeks in the year when she could forget who she was, just for a while, learning words and music and steps in Jasper Spenlow's chorus. Last year she had been in 'Pirates', the year before in 'Yeomen'; and Chester, not aspiring to the stage but believing in marital solidarity, undertook the role of treasurer to the society, and often sat in the darkened back of the theatre while Bella pretended she was somebody else.

This year it was more exciting than usual, for during the auditions Jasper had regarded her with a calculating eye and then suggested she should understudy for Katisha. 'You've got the quality of voice,' he said, 'though too small. Can you sing louder? Well, anyway ...' and she had gone home in a state of twitter that had taken all her acting ability to hide from her husband.

'Good auditions?' he had asked without looking up; and she had nodded and taken off her scarf and subdued her inner exuberance.

'Very good, thank you, dear. Jasper was very pleased.' She hesitated only briefly. 'As a matter of fact he's asked me to be one of the understudies — for Katisha.'

Chester had glanced up over his glasses. 'Katisha? Good lord! You? You're nothing like Katisha!'

'He says I have the quality of voice. Though small.'

'Well, I must say I don't agree with him. I always see Katisha as a bit strident — a bit on the coarse side. Surely he must have someone more — more ...'

'Well,' Bella said, not disappointed, because Chester had such high standards and would offer opinions, as he often said, without fear or favour, 'he seemed to think ...'

'Anyway,' her husband said, going back to the shop accounts spread before him on the table, 'Miss Glencosset is never ill, so they won't have to call on you.'

Bella went through to the bedroom and stood before the mirror, examining herself with a critical eye. Now that she thought about it, the idea was clearly ridiculous. She didn't have what Miss Glencosset called 'the presence'; her face was placidly middle-aged — though perhaps with make-up.? And above all, she was not a dominating person. Which both Miss Glencosset and Katisha indisputably were.

With some fervour she wished Teresa Glencosset well for the run of the operetta.

Miss Glencosset was indeed in excellent health. Perhaps a little overweight these days — headmistressing tended to be more sedentary than classroom teaching had been — but she kept to a strict regimen and included a game of tennis in her busy day whenever the opportunity presented itself.

The secret of success, she had found, was to have a programme and stick to it! This was what she always told her girls. Each day was carefully planned the previous evening, and in this way she was able to include not only the essential activities posed by her job, but also such personal pleasures as her annual involvement with Gilbert and Sullivan. The desk diary pages were gradually engulfed as the year moved on by precise lines of detail, the skeleton or blue-print or what-have-you upon which her life depended.

Running parallel with this framework were the other diaries, in which more personal matters were immortalised. They were splendid leather-bound books, fleshing out the bones of the daily round; her raw material, she hoped, for the autobiographical work she intended to write in her retirement.

Tonight, after rehearsal, she sat at her desk under the gentle light of the electrified oil lamp and planned the day to come, pinning it down with times and places as precisely as a butterfly captured in a showcase.

'3.30 pm: visit of Prof Ed Pultry, to discuss development of studies in biology.

4.15 pm: tea in study with Prof E.P.

4.45 pm: Prof E.P. leaving. See Matron about Muriel Smith's impetigo.'

Once the day ahead had been netted and secured, she turned to the current leather-bound repository of her more evanescent thoughts and feelings.

'Excellent rehearsal. J Spenlow meticulous as always. A fine music director, in spite of everything, bearing out the promise of earlier years!! His wife's overall direction imaginative and inspiring. But sense that all is not ...' (she stopped, searching for words), 'is not as they would have us think.' (A bit vague there; she would be more precise when she knew better what the situation really was).

(Continues...)

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We collect and process data for the following reasons:

personal data collected and created in relation to our selling books and other items; and
personal data relating to our people (which means those people working for our company, or providing services to us, or potentially working or providing services to us, including employees, consultants, temporary or casual workers and contractors).
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COLLECTION:
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We may collect this personal data from you directly, and also from third parties, including publicly available third party sources. Additional personal data will be collected as it is created by or supplied to us in the course of anything we do for you.

USE:
We will use the personal data in the course of making sales and to comply with requirements that we are required to undertake.

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

in performance of a contract (the agreement to sell books and other items); and/or
compliance with a legal obligation; and/or
vital interests of the data subject; and/or
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be far less common:

where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests);
where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
DISCLOSURE:
We may share personal data with third parties as is necessary in the sale of books and other items, including to third party providers who deliver services to support the operation of our company.

In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.

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We will collect names, addresses, contact details, education and employment history, identity and other background checks (which may include appropriate criminal and financial checks and confirmation of the right to work in the UK), marital status and information on next of kin and dependents, financial information (such as bank details and NI numbers), date of birth, gender, a copy of your passport and driving licence, performance information and compensation history, recruitment information (including references), salary, benefits, pension and annual leave information, disciplinary and grievance information, photographs, information about your use of our information and communications systems and CCTV footage or other information obtained through electronic means.

We may collect and use special categories of personal data as required in the carrying out of obligations and exercising specific rights of us or the data subject in the field of employment. This may include information relating to matters such as health, racial origin, religious belief and offences or alleged offences.

Personal data may be collected from you during the selection process (for example via your application form and CV) and during your employment (including holiday forms, expense claims, performance reviews, any disciplinary or grievance processes), or from third parties, including referees, health service providers, background check providers.

USE:
Personal data of our people will be used for HR administration and management, both in respect of the selection of people to work for us (including suitability, eligibility and/or fitness to work), and those who do work for us, to include learning and development, disciplinary and security (of people, offices and data) requirements, providing and liaising with benefits providers, business management and planning (including accounting and auditing), paying you and dealing with tax and NI deductions, assessing and deciding on salary reviews and compensation, conducting performance reviews and managing performance, dealing with legal disputes involving you or others, preventing fraud, monitoring your use of our information and communications systems, ensuring compliance with our policies, and equal opportunities monitoring.

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

In performance of a contract with you; and/or
compliance with a legal obligation; and/or
vital interests of the data subject; and/or
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be less common:

where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests);
where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.

In respect of special categories of personal data, we may process this in the following circumstances:

in limited circumstances with your explicit written consent; and/or
where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed in the public interest (such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our occupational pension scheme), and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.
Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your (or someone else’s) interests and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public. We may also process such information about our people (or former people) in the course of our legitimate business activities with the appropriate safeguards.

The special categories of personal data may be used in the following ways:

in relation to leaves of absence, to comply with employment and other laws;
in relation to your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to monitor, manage and administer benefits and absences;
in relation to your race, national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
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Personal data may be transferred to service providers who support the operation of our business (such as payroll service providers), to other third parties reasonably necessary in the conduct of our business (including insurers, professional advisors, regulators). These third parties may be acting as processor, or controller of personal data in their own right.

RETENTION PERIOD:
We will keep personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. We will normally keep personal data of applicants who we do not employ for six months after we receive it.

We will keep personal data of employees throughout your employment and normally for a minimum of six years after your employment ends.

Changes to your personal data
It is very important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and current. Please tell us if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.

Data Security
We have put in place measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those of our people and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and the ICO of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

Where we store your personal data
We principally store data, both electronically and on file, at our office.

Personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA by processors acting on our behalf. For transfers to countries not considered adequate by the EC, we will ensure that personal data is adequately protected, as required by the GDPR. This would include by use of the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the EC to protect personal data.

Your rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to request:

access to your personal data. This enables you to ask to receive a copy of the personal data that we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
erasure of your personal data.
object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
restriction of processing of your personal data.
transfer of your personal data to another party.
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CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on our website, so please ensure that you are viewing the correct version.

Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy.

Last amended May 2021.

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