She gave an affronted expression and raised a mornful hand to her forehead and gave a dramatic sniff, as though his revelation of the future of the estate was exactly that, a revelation. The reality was she rather expected it - but hoped that her father had a long span of years left to him, so she needn't worry about it, until she was either married, or so old and set in her ways that she was past caring.

'Then I shall have to leave my romantic life in your hands for a few more months yet' she threatened, 'If you wish me gone, and apparently you have the way with the gentlemen, perhaps we ought to leave the matter to you to see of lovely brother in law you find for yourself? she folded the letter back up and flick it at him so the letter with it's gaudy pink ribbon thwacked him in the chest.

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