Lingering alone in the garden at Fort Lestrange was probably the best case scenario when the family were gathered en masse. Mostly the family ignored her anyway, which was as frustrating as it was liberating, and she had no desire to sit silently while they conversed.
Tatiana was being smug about something or other - she'd probably worked out how to crawl inside aunt Mariana so the woman could actually give birth to her - and none of the men had even looked in her direction so much as to say hello. Purity ran in their veins, but basic manners did not apparently. Of her own peers Seneca seemed poised to snipe about Frida at any given moment and Gretchen was not in the mood.
Perhaps it would have been nicer to go to far off places with Mr Prewett? At least there she wouldn't have to pretend that they weren't all thinking about what method aunt Olivia would have used to dispose of Ellory's disgraced corpse.
And now she had company in the form of another cousin who had probably only learnt her name that morning and still wasn't sure whether she was Frida, Gretchen or Meta.
"It was like most things. Showy but hollow and like shoving a bird's face up against the bars of its cage so it can see what a marvellous time all the other birds are having."
Tatiana was being smug about something or other - she'd probably worked out how to crawl inside aunt Mariana so the woman could actually give birth to her - and none of the men had even looked in her direction so much as to say hello. Purity ran in their veins, but basic manners did not apparently. Of her own peers Seneca seemed poised to snipe about Frida at any given moment and Gretchen was not in the mood.
Perhaps it would have been nicer to go to far off places with Mr Prewett? At least there she wouldn't have to pretend that they weren't all thinking about what method aunt Olivia would have used to dispose of Ellory's disgraced corpse.
And now she had company in the form of another cousin who had probably only learnt her name that morning and still wasn't sure whether she was Frida, Gretchen or Meta.
"It was like most things. Showy but hollow and like shoving a bird's face up against the bars of its cage so it can see what a marvellous time all the other birds are having."
Bee is tremendous, isn't she?