Ellory smiled as well, assuming that Miss Devine was equally willing to make fun of Antigone and Tiberius. She was already viewing her as an Ally in the social battle against Antigone.

Ellory made a sound at Ophelia's suggestion of Antigone getting herself pregnant via alternative routes. "Tiberius would murder her!" Ellory commented. Literally and not figuratively as one said this sort of thing. Tiberius was much more likely to pull a Henry the Eighth stint and marry woman after woman and accuse them of being infertile after the marriage didn't produce an heir.

"Besides, no other man would want to have her, unless he was for hire and desperate to pay his rent!"