#coldrey

[flytricc]

I miss Audrey

[sibillyn-blog]

One of the other peculiar things about the Coldrey family is that they did not have a car. The eldest daughter, a talented child who excelled in everything she did from sports to music, was robbed of choir practice and football lessons, thus mastering nothing. By the time the younger was born, Mr. and Mrs. Coldrey were older and had all but given up on trying to provide little Daisy with musical or artistic vocation outside of school. Angry and tired, the parents thought that brining the children up in a grand, affluent household was enough for them to become great scientists like themselves. And so, there would be no friends to meet, no parties to attend and the Coldrey daughters grew up lonely and sheltered fr the comforting din of daily social life. People, of course, had much to say. Relatives, forced to maintain decorum at gatherings, tutted over how "introverted" the family was. Friends tsked at how they had to do favours for the girls every time, dropping them home after a birthday party that Mrs. Coldrey couldn't find an excuse to say 'no' to. But perhaps the primary reason for their apparent social reclusiveness was not their inherent madness or misfortune, but because the family did not have a car.