Oh, my. Juliana certainly hadn't been expecting to hear that someone had died. For one thing, it didn't happen all that often (well, it did in the grand scale, but not in the individual lives of private citizens), and for another, it wasn't the sort of thing that casual acquaintances tended to bring up over tea. And it would be a stretch to call the two of them even casual acquaintances, really; they had exchanged names and now could not properly be strangers, but they had only met a moment ago, after all.

"How frightful," she said sympathetically, though did not think it prudent to say more on the subject. She had said her brother-in-law had died tragically, after all, which, depending on the exact circumstances, might be all she was comfortable saying on the subject. On the other hand, if she was willing to bring up her recently deceased brother-in-law at all, maybe she was willing to say more on the matter than the average woman might do over tea. Which... might be good or bad, really. Juliana would have to admit she was vaguely interested to know what tragic meant, but she was not particularly fond of gory details, so... perhaps it would be best avoided.

There was another interesting thing that the woman had said, though, and so Jules decided to pick that up as the new conversation thread. "You said your twin sister? I don't know whether I've met someone with a twin before... though I suppose perhaps I have and didn't know it at the time," she reflected. "They say that twins are terribly unlucky. Do you think that's true? Have you ever felt yourself to be an unlucky person, Miss Smith?"