Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

'You can't order one to a pattern like that. You're just heading for trouble'

a) What is the speaker reacting to?

b) How was he proved right?

c) What 'trouble' did the other person face?

a) The speaker was Anne’s. In the months before Marian was born, Anne drew a picture of her dream baby for her husband. Seeing this curiosity and surety that the baby would not only be a golden one, but also a girl, her husband advised her to be sensible. He even warned her against heading for unnecessary trouble.

b) The speaker had mentioned to Anne that they weren’t even sure if the child would be a girl and above that Anne had pictured a girl with all features she was expecting in her. After Marian’s birth she realised that her husband was right to say that her longings were foolish and even if she had a girl she can't order one to a pattern like that.

c) The other person is Anne. Her child was not how she had pictured her to be. Marian was a beautiful child of seven. With dark curls framing her small pointed face, dark and a little more serious eyed and full, sensitive lips. Though Marian was dear and intelligent, the narrator had expected a golden coloured, golden voiced child before Marian was born. She had expected a confident child.