"I don’t believe in patronising younger children," she responds coolly. "Protagonist’ is a perfectly suitable word for a ten-year-old to learn. The dig about her school, she ignores entirely. She goes to St Paul’s Girls’, which does cost £27,000 per year, but it’s not like Lavender doesn’t go to Francis Holland herself. They live in Islington, for God’s sake. You can’t swing a cat in Islington without hitting a score of privately educated people.