If things were as she strongly suspected then Ambrosia doubted a few days would make much difference in the long run. It would be kinder to tell Adrienne, of course, but there was the outside possibility that her assessment was off the mark and Ambrosia simply refused to bear the indignity of even being the slightest bit wrong so she opted to keep it firmly to herself.

A little hint would not hurt, though.

“Perhaps you ought to see a proper healer?” And then it struck her. A way to help without having to show outward signs of anything as pedestrian as caring. “Or someone from when you insisted upon that job during the school holidays? That grim midwife you were so impressed with.”

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