In the Heart of the Highlander (2013)
“The card party was lively, the waft of cigar smoke burrowing in under the connecting door between her room and Oliver’s. They also shared a bathroom, and Mary felt herself go scarlet every time one of Oliver’s guests relieved himself.
Apparently men could continue conversations as they pissed, which seemed very scandalous to Mary’s way of thinking. She was simply unused to being in such close proximity to men and their rude behavior. When she had lived with her brother, Albert, and his fami...ly, she’d been stuck up in the attic with the servants, having been turned out of her own girlhood room above the store when the twins arrived. She was still living over the store so to speak, but males of any age were entirely absent upstairs on Mount Street. Hamblen lived in, as did Mrs. Norris, their housekeeper-cook. Mrs. Norris had begun her career as Norine de la Rue, and of the streets she had been until Aunt Mim took her in. Aunt Mim was an exacting but fair employer, Norine had proved a better cook than courtesan, and Mary’s home life had been comfortable these last four years.MoreLess
Apparently men could continue conversations as they pissed, which seemed very scandalous to Mary’s way of thinking. She was simply unused to being in such close proximity to men and their rude behavior. When she had lived with her brother, Albert, and his fami...ly, she’d been stuck up in the attic with the servants, having been turned out of her own girlhood room above the store when the twins arrived. She was still living over the store so to speak, but males of any age were entirely absent upstairs on Mount Street. Hamblen lived in, as did Mrs. Norris, their housekeeper-cook. Mrs. Norris had begun her career as Norine de la Rue, and of the streets she had been until Aunt Mim took her in. Aunt Mim was an exacting but fair employer, Norine had proved a better cook than courtesan, and Mary’s home life had been comfortable these last four years.MoreLess
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