It was unfair not to tell her the whole truth, to lay bare the situation in which Percy had found himself in. With Maggie and Miss Beauregard that was what he would have liked most. Had the truth from Maggie come out that fateful afternoon he wouldn't have had to watch her for almost thirteen years with another man. But before he could tell Miss Jennings any of this she was excusing herself from him. "Miss Jennings -" He started, but she was gone, hastily making her way down the path and leaving Percy utterly baffled at the sudden turn in his circumstances.