The Maiden’s Tale
““Being somewhat overdressed to what I’m used to, I’ll likely do well enough.” Dame Frevisse twitched her skirts over her toes and tucked her hands into her opposite sleeves. “I understand from Lady Alice that you and I are cousins of a sort.”
Jane, readying to talk about the weather again, blurted, “What?” then steadied and said with a veneer of pleased politeness over a rapid wondering of how much and what Lady Alice had told her, “We are, aren’t we? Of a sort. By marriage.”
“I’ve sometimes th...ought that ‘by marriage’ is the best way to be related. How many people have you found you’d want to claim as blood kin?”
Jane smothered a laugh, knowing how even worse than a smile it suited her face, but warmed to Dame Frevisse nonetheless and said, “What was it Lady Alice told you?”
“How you’re her niece and how you were nunneried at birth, and that you’d not mind if I asked you about the rest.”
Mind? Jane did not know if she did or not mind, but what had been done to her still hurt and she said with a laughing edge, to cover the hurt from herself as well as anyone else, “To begin from there, I’m told I kept St.MoreLess
Jane, readying to talk about the weather again, blurted, “What?” then steadied and said with a veneer of pleased politeness over a rapid wondering of how much and what Lady Alice had told her, “We are, aren’t we? Of a sort. By marriage.”
“I’ve sometimes th...ought that ‘by marriage’ is the best way to be related. How many people have you found you’d want to claim as blood kin?”
Jane smothered a laugh, knowing how even worse than a smile it suited her face, but warmed to Dame Frevisse nonetheless and said, “What was it Lady Alice told you?”
“How you’re her niece and how you were nunneried at birth, and that you’d not mind if I asked you about the rest.”
Mind? Jane did not know if she did or not mind, but what had been done to her still hurt and she said with a laughing edge, to cover the hurt from herself as well as anyone else, “To begin from there, I’m told I kept St.MoreLess
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