Some months later sara had her eleventh birthday. Lessons stopped for the afternoon and there was a big party for all the girls in the school.
' This party is expensive for us, ' miss minchin said to her sister Amelia. ' But it looks good for the school. '
That afternoon threr was a visitor to the school miss minchin' s lawyer. He went with miss minchin into her office and they closed the door. in the schoolroom next door there was a lof of noise from sara' s party. Everybody in there was very happy.
Buy in the office Miss Minchin was not happy. she looked at the lawyer angrily. ' Whay are you saying ?
Mr Crewe has no money ? What about the the diamond mines ?
There are no diamond mines, ' said the lawyer. ' Well, there are mines, but there are no diamonde in them. '