A Notorious Countess Confesses (Pg7)
“Sneath, Miss Josephine Charing and Miss Pitney delivered Eve to Lady Fennimore’s house.“Lady Fennimore is a very elderly dowager. She enjoys the company since she cannot leave the house any longer. Perhaps you can read to her,” Mrs. Sneath suggested. “Something edifying to both of you.” She’d thrust a Bible into Eve’s hands. A passage was marked.“She’s terrifying,” Miss Charing had confided to her, out of earshot of Mrs. Sneath. “She’s a horrible old lady. If you haven’t cried in years, even if... you’ve never wept at all in your entire life, I wager she will find a way to make you do it. Even Miss Pitney—and her heart is as cold and hard an olive stone, I assure you—wept.”“I got a bit of camphor in my eye, and it stung,” Miss Pitney insisted huffily. “Her room is filled with the stuff.”“Her daughter Jenny holds up well, I think, beneath all of that. She says her mother wasn’t always like that, but I’ve never known her to be anything else. And she likes the vicar, Lady Fennimore does.”MoreLess
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