Curious though she may be, she was nonetheless surprised when the answer she got wasn't evasive or an outright refusal. However, she had no idea what the ominous sounding 'something' was. He couldn't know Tiberius that well if he thought her husband told her anything not immediately relevant to her. She didn't even know what progress he had made on procuring an heir or where the child would come from, nor did she know if she'd ever find out if she left it entirely up to him to tell her. Maybe though, maybe Cassius did know him well and had good reason to assume she would have been told. Either way though Tig felt embarrassed and frustrated by her own ignorance and placed the blame with Tiberius.
A myriad of responses presented themselves but she didn't want to expose her ignorance too blatantly. All she could deduce or guess at from what he'd said, was that Cassius had done something his father strongly disapproved of and he had suffered consequences of some sort. "So," she finally began, having used a clumsy puff on her cigarette as an excuse to delay her response, they were rather handy in that respect for all that they tasted like the bottom of a coal scuttle. "You're the family disappointment." There was always one. Tig liked to think Ligeia was the disappointment in her family but in truth she felt it was her. The way he had spoken seemed to imply that he felt he was making an understatement but Tig was disinclined to believe it was all as bad as he was making out, at least not from where she stood. "Life must be terrible for you."
A myriad of responses presented themselves but she didn't want to expose her ignorance too blatantly. All she could deduce or guess at from what he'd said, was that Cassius had done something his father strongly disapproved of and he had suffered consequences of some sort. "So," she finally began, having used a clumsy puff on her cigarette as an excuse to delay her response, they were rather handy in that respect for all that they tasted like the bottom of a coal scuttle. "You're the family disappointment." There was always one. Tig liked to think Ligeia was the disappointment in her family but in truth she felt it was her. The way he had spoken seemed to imply that he felt he was making an understatement but Tig was disinclined to believe it was all as bad as he was making out, at least not from where she stood. "Life must be terrible for you."
