Had it really come to this? Passing Charles Macmillan back and forth like an upright booby prize?

“You know, you can take kindness too far very easily,” she said pointedly, hovering behind her sister as she tried to remember if she’d been present for that. She had cut down on the laudanum of late, but there were still hazy periods and balls did have a tendency to blur together.

“I’m sure none of them forget Torie,” she said cattily, reaching up to move a lock of her sister’s hair from one perfectly good place to another. “It would be hard to with that hair of hers. I wonder what colour it will be tonight.”

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time of death: when MJ dropped this heart-stopping set