Not usually one to take on undue blame to spare someone else's feelings, Ursula couldn't believe that was what Elladora was doing now, but she was also struggling to accept that she hadn't foisted the gesture upon her entirely. That was certainly the way she'd chosen to remember it anyway. Had Elladora started it? The truth was an uncertain haze in her memory. If her sister-in-law was the chaste old maid that she was supposed to be, then how could she have been capable of it? She couldn't possibly have instigated a first kiss upon the wrong sex - that defied reason! She would be the first one to wonder if it was possible simply because she was deeply alluring and had confused Elladora's virgin brain but even her vanity couldn't reconcile that. This brought her back to the conundrum of what was more likely: Elladora sparing her feelings or Elladora having kissed someone before. She was inclined to ask but the look on the older woman's face made her question the futility of pursuing it.

For now she decided to let it go. There probably wouldn't be another chance to pick it up again but it was more important at present to communicate the last of what she needed to before it was too late. "Regardless, I brought you to dishonesty with Phineas, I burdened you with the knowledge of..." Elladora had caught her one time but she surely hadn't thought that two one-off indiscretions weren't part of a larger pattern of ongoing behavior. "I should have been more careful."

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