Charles wished his daughter had a better instinct for how she ought to behave, even at three or however old she was. Why did she insist on scaling the furniture like a chimney sweep up a flue? If his mother wasn't going to chastise her though, he was willing to let it slide. "Althea is far more refined and has a much nicer meaning besides." He loathed displeasing his mother even ever so slightly, but he was determined Noelle would not win the battle even in death. Even if it intensified her haunting. It was really only a matter of time before she found him again, he was convinced of it. There was another reason to keep his daughter elsewhere, Noelle's ghostly influence was potentially even more damaging that she might have been in the flesh.
He wanted then to launch into requesting that she take her granddaughter but decided that he wanted to soften her up a little more beforehand. Charles cleared his throat and perched on the edge of the nearest chair. "How have you been keeping, Mama? You look very well considering you have Elmer ghouling about the place." Of his brothers, Elmer was actually his favorite and he had tried to sound lightly teasing to cover the sharpness behind them for despite being his favorite brother, Elmer's only competition was Edward and Charles despised the pair of them.
He wanted then to launch into requesting that she take her granddaughter but decided that he wanted to soften her up a little more beforehand. Charles cleared his throat and perched on the edge of the nearest chair. "How have you been keeping, Mama? You look very well considering you have Elmer ghouling about the place." Of his brothers, Elmer was actually his favorite and he had tried to sound lightly teasing to cover the sharpness behind them for despite being his favorite brother, Elmer's only competition was Edward and Charles despised the pair of them.
