Ella hesitated to answer. She doubted it would come as much surprise to Ursula that Phineas had left her bedside during her illness to return to Hogwarts, but the confirmation of his desertion would wound all the same. It wouldn’t have done for him to have observed a vigil at his wife’s bedside, they were not French after all, but even Ella might have expected her brother to be a tad more invested in whether his wife lived. Then again he already had his heirs, and her to run the houses in stead of a wife, so in reality Ursula’s death would likely have meant very little to him.
She kept that particular thought to herself.
“Returned to the castle for the new term,” Ella explained tonelessly, the same way his decision had been explained to her in Phineas’ study. “I have written to him every day whether there was news or not – that’s where I was when you woke as a matter of fact.”
At least the next letter might stir him into actually replying.
fabulous set by Lady <3