Disclaimer: See first entry. The girl referred to in this entry is Sheila Birling who belongs to J.B.Priestley.
The Diary of Eva Smith
January 30th, 1911
I love working at Milwards because the people are so friendly and the canteen food is delicious. At Milwards you have to be polite, helpful and sociable towards customers.
Today, a pretty girl came in looking for a certain dress she wanted to try on.
I went to get the dress for her and it was beautiful: emerald green in colour with tiny pink flowers stitched on, fitted at the waist to show the woman's figure and, as all the dresses at Milwards are, extremely elegant, feminine and stylish.
The girl was friendly and cheerful at first.
While she was putting the dress on, a friend I work with, Adelle Francis, smiled at me and we started talking about a birthday party we'd been to the other night.
When the girl came back she was no longer smiling. She looked angry and was rude to Adelle and me; she demanded to see Mr Terris (the manager) and Adelle went and fetched him.
Mr Terris tried to soothe the woman and eventually took her into his office.
There must have been something wrong with the dress, that's probably why her mood changed so quickly.