"Engaged?!"
Both eyebrows arched high in surprise. It was true she did not have a close acquaintance with Mr. Applegate, but she liked the Unspeakable well enough. She could not picture him engaged to the tearful Miss Hunniford—indeed, perhaps that why it had ended badly, as he had said. Was this something Persy ought to have known, she wondered, the typical idle gossip to which she made a point of paying as little attention as possible?
"Mr. Applegate, I do not surprise easily, but it seems you have managed it."
She studied the wizard carefully. The flush in his cheeks suggested he was embarrassed, or something near enough to that emotion, by the topic—why, then, had he brought it up to begin with? Persy respected him too much to suppose that he was using such honesty to express a romantic interest in her, so there must be another motive at hand.
Both eyebrows arched high in surprise. It was true she did not have a close acquaintance with Mr. Applegate, but she liked the Unspeakable well enough. She could not picture him engaged to the tearful Miss Hunniford—indeed, perhaps that why it had ended badly, as he had said. Was this something Persy ought to have known, she wondered, the typical idle gossip to which she made a point of paying as little attention as possible?
"Mr. Applegate, I do not surprise easily, but it seems you have managed it."
She studied the wizard carefully. The flush in his cheeks suggested he was embarrassed, or something near enough to that emotion, by the topic—why, then, had he brought it up to begin with? Persy respected him too much to suppose that he was using such honesty to express a romantic interest in her, so there must be another motive at hand.
— mj makes glorious sets! —