He looked rather liked she'd sent him a howler, and a kinder woman would have just left it at this. Lucinda took another sip of her drink. A kinder woman would not have yelled at Elsie; a kinder woman probably would have closed the library door and gone to tell someone else, or pretended that she never saw it. Lucinda was not the kindest person in the Beauregard family, and she still felt rather burned, having been condescended to about love and marriage and her place in the world.
"I suppose the alternative is hoping she marries someone else and having a torrid affair that results in curly-haired Gryffindor babies," Lucinda added cheerfully, more to get a reaction than anything else. She gave a light laugh, one that echoed around the library. Honestly. She really ought to just solve everyone's romantic disasters for them.
"I suppose the alternative is hoping she marries someone else and having a torrid affair that results in curly-haired Gryffindor babies," Lucinda added cheerfully, more to get a reaction than anything else. She gave a light laugh, one that echoed around the library. Honestly. She really ought to just solve everyone's romantic disasters for them.