July 1st
Phyri,
Mr. Devine and I retired to Ireland when the fog reached Hogsmeade, as I think you knew, and although the estate could not be more lovely I am deliriously bored out here so far away from all my friends, and without hardly a party to attend. I mention this not to complain (as I'm sure you must be feeling similarly, being so cut off from Hogsmeade and all those that live there) but rather to excuse what I tell you next, as the act of a desperate mind in search of any sort of stimulation: I have been reading Witch Weekly again.
I did actually leave off for a good while after I was married, so it wasn't entirely an empty threat, but I could hardly cut myself off from society entirely when the fog set in, and so I have been keeping up with it through the month of June and now into July. They seem to have moved on to other matters and left my supposed affair with Mr. Bixby out of their pages, but this week there was an absurd rumor that I had been spotted in The Hog's Head, of all places, with a man!
You don't think anyone will be daft enough to believe that, do you? I'm not even in Hogsmeade, and if I was I certainly shouldn't choose someplace so terribly low brow for my supposed trysts! Do you think they included that just to be mean-spirited about my having left, or did someone actually think they saw me there?
Ophelia
Mr. Devine and I retired to Ireland when the fog reached Hogsmeade, as I think you knew, and although the estate could not be more lovely I am deliriously bored out here so far away from all my friends, and without hardly a party to attend. I mention this not to complain (as I'm sure you must be feeling similarly, being so cut off from Hogsmeade and all those that live there) but rather to excuse what I tell you next, as the act of a desperate mind in search of any sort of stimulation: I have been reading Witch Weekly again.
I did actually leave off for a good while after I was married, so it wasn't entirely an empty threat, but I could hardly cut myself off from society entirely when the fog set in, and so I have been keeping up with it through the month of June and now into July. They seem to have moved on to other matters and left my supposed affair with Mr. Bixby out of their pages, but this week there was an absurd rumor that I had been spotted in The Hog's Head, of all places, with a man!
You don't think anyone will be daft enough to believe that, do you? I'm not even in Hogsmeade, and if I was I certainly shouldn't choose someplace so terribly low brow for my supposed trysts! Do you think they included that just to be mean-spirited about my having left, or did someone actually think they saw me there?