However good natured his question it was like spreading salt on her wounds. Of course he would inquire after them, for why else would she have effectively disappeared from his life once again? Maggie nodded mutely as she closed the door behind him. Somehow or another she had to make it through this conversation without explaining what happened. If Percy knew she had lost their child he wouldn't want to leave her. He would refuse to pursue Ms. Jennings and Maggie would only continue to fail him again and again. Regardless of how deep for him her love ran, Maggie couldn't put either of them through that heartache.

They moved into the parlor, allowing Maggie a few precious seconds to steel her nerves — to put her mask in place and survive this conversation. She had weathered through far worse with Edmund (after all, hadn't she been the one to inform him their daughter was born asleep) she could make it through this.

"Yes, they're all fine. They're visiting my parents with Victoria." She said, still not giving him the explanation he so deserved. "Everyone is fine."