Flora began a mental bulleted list of facts about Miss Gamp that she thought would be useful later. She needed to hold her tongue with her questions, though, lest a chat with her friend become an interrogation session! Not that she needed to worry about that. Any further questions stopped themselves from forming when Hesper made the somber confession that she was writing to her parents—her dead parents.
"Oh," she said softly, her face falling almost immediately. "You must miss them lots." Flora sort of knew what it was like to have dead parents. Not that her parents were dead, but sometimes they didn't seem to take too much of an interest in her. Still it was nothing like having dead-dead parents, and Flora was not sure she could ever be an orphan.
"Oh," she said softly, her face falling almost immediately. "You must miss them lots." Flora sort of knew what it was like to have dead parents. Not that her parents were dead, but sometimes they didn't seem to take too much of an interest in her. Still it was nothing like having dead-dead parents, and Flora was not sure she could ever be an orphan.
