It had been a question asked with no agenda, and not even that much real interest – but she was looking sidelong at Miss Glynn as they walked, eyes half on the landscape over her shoulder until that interesting response. Not the verbal one at all, but that surprising look. The bitten lip, the sudden flush – so now maybe Enid Glynn was more intriguing than Mattie had ever supposed?
Surely it wasn’t just a flush of self-consciousness or modesty, a woman aware she was so plainly mundane? No – there simply had to be something else. She looked nervous. A corner of Mattie’s mouth twitched.
“Oh, but a family dinner can’t be all, Miss Enid!” She said, snaking her free arm around the other girl’s with a friendly conspiratorial manner; and perhaps to express that she was not going to get away so easily with any deflection now. Mattie could be a dog with a bone when she wanted something, after all. “I think there must be something else that’s making you blush so. The question is,” she teased – making good use of her now defunct prefect tone, and sorely hoping there was a secret to uncover – “are you going to tell me about it, or are you going to be a terror and make me guess?” Her eyebrows arched and she grinned devilishly to say that she would certainly assume the worst if she were allowed to.
Surely it wasn’t just a flush of self-consciousness or modesty, a woman aware she was so plainly mundane? No – there simply had to be something else. She looked nervous. A corner of Mattie’s mouth twitched.
“Oh, but a family dinner can’t be all, Miss Enid!” She said, snaking her free arm around the other girl’s with a friendly conspiratorial manner; and perhaps to express that she was not going to get away so easily with any deflection now. Mattie could be a dog with a bone when she wanted something, after all. “I think there must be something else that’s making you blush so. The question is,” she teased – making good use of her now defunct prefect tone, and sorely hoping there was a secret to uncover – “are you going to tell me about it, or are you going to be a terror and make me guess?” Her eyebrows arched and she grinned devilishly to say that she would certainly assume the worst if she were allowed to.
