You are Mrs Pearson of the story. Write a letter to your friend how your next door neighbour Mrs Fitzgerald helped in making you the mistress of your own house and setting your spoilt children and husband right.

12 Hudson Square

London

20th March, 2008

Dear Lily

Can you believe a weak and timid woman becoming the mistress and boss of her family? It may sound like a miracle. But it is true. This is what I am today. My spoilt children Doris and Cyril are tamed now. So is my husband George. Now I set the agenda and they follow it. Now I am the real mistress and boss of my family.

It happened only a few months ago. Mrs Fitzgerald knows the art of magic. She has learnt it from the East. She made me utter some strange words. Within a few moments our personalities got exchanged. I became now a strong and dominating woman, inherited the personality of Mrs Fitzgerald. First I dealt with Doris. She was pretty a spoilt daughter in her early twenties. She made me run all the day doing one thing or the other. She was shocked to see her mother smoking and drinking. She got angry when she was ignored and asked to help herself. Cyril too met with the same fate. He was very demanding. He shouted for keeping all his things out and for tea. He was snubbed and asked to help himself. Then came the turn of George. You know he used to spend all the time at the club. I ridiculed him. I reminded him that he was the standing joke of the people at the club. They called him Pompy-Ompy Pearson for being sluggish and pompous. Everyone was set right. We exchanged personalities again. But now was a different Mrs Pearson, the mistress and boss of my family.

Yours truly

Mrs Pearson