Respectable women. (So – not working women like Meredith or bartending, unmarried-but-cohabiting women like Eileen.) Society women. Debutantes. Jude consciously refrained from grinding his teeth.
He was somewhat surprised, though, by the mention of the other candidates. What did Prewett and Picardy have to do with this? Neither of them seemed likely to be pro-voting reform, to begin with. And weren’t they a middle-aged bachelor and widower respectively? Long since set in their ways, Jude supposed, enamoured of their own company, and unlikely to have seen their campaigns as the way to a belated marriage. He felt as though he were missing Kieran’s point.
“And?” He raised his eyebrows, expectant. So what?
He was somewhat surprised, though, by the mention of the other candidates. What did Prewett and Picardy have to do with this? Neither of them seemed likely to be pro-voting reform, to begin with. And weren’t they a middle-aged bachelor and widower respectively? Long since set in their ways, Jude supposed, enamoured of their own company, and unlikely to have seen their campaigns as the way to a belated marriage. He felt as though he were missing Kieran’s point.
“And?” He raised his eyebrows, expectant. So what?
