Charity smiled brightly, but then her smiled faltered as she remembered, "Well, I do have a reading companion and a dictionary with me at all times. I like big words." She was not so smart, and it would be wrong (and potentially damaging) to give her potential governess the impression that she was so capable when she was not. The last thing she wanted was to be forced to read things aloud she barely understood!
"But my favorite part is when baby Astyanax is thrown to his death. It's very tragic." It helped her remind herself that her own life was not so terrible. Being tossed to her death as a babe would have been far worse than becoming an orphan—not that she would be here to compare the two fates if she had.
"But my favorite part is when baby Astyanax is thrown to his death. It's very tragic." It helped her remind herself that her own life was not so terrible. Being tossed to her death as a babe would have been far worse than becoming an orphan—not that she would be here to compare the two fates if she had.
