Mistress of Mourning
Mistress of Mourning
“I quickly changed into my woman’s garments—was I right to wear my best brocade gown to attend an earl?—then rushed to see him, flushed and out of breath, with my hair poorly pinned and only half-veiled.
I had to ask directions to his suite of chambers. At his door stood a guard to whom I gave my name and said I had been sent to give His Grace immediate information about the ruination of the prince’s royal banners. My legs shaking from my haste, and from facing an earl—the Lord High Treasurer of... England, no less—I was quickly admitted. I curtsied as he rose from behind a desk in a small anteroom. Up this close I could see that his narrow face, lofty eyebrows, and aquiline nose gave him a haughty look. He was nearly as tall as Nick.
“Ah, the young woman sent to oversee the prince’s burial,” he said as his gaze swept over me once, then again, much the way Christopher used to scrutinize me. He came around his desk and stopped but a few feet away. “Trouble outside or inside the castle?MoreLess
I had to ask directions to his suite of chambers. At his door stood a guard to whom I gave my name and said I had been sent to give His Grace immediate information about the ruination of the prince’s royal banners. My legs shaking from my haste, and from facing an earl—the Lord High Treasurer of... England, no less—I was quickly admitted. I curtsied as he rose from behind a desk in a small anteroom. Up this close I could see that his narrow face, lofty eyebrows, and aquiline nose gave him a haughty look. He was nearly as tall as Nick.
“Ah, the young woman sent to oversee the prince’s burial,” he said as his gaze swept over me once, then again, much the way Christopher used to scrutinize me. He came around his desk and stopped but a few feet away. “Trouble outside or inside the castle?MoreLess
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