"So he slipped the hook."
Aug. 10th, 2012 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_mary"At least I'm not fishing with no bait."
It had been easy enough to shut Edith down, but Mary can't hide her disappointment from herself. Just this morning the Duke had seemed just as pleased to see her as she was him. She's not sure exactly where she went wrong. Things had been going so well, and then when dinner ended suddenly they weren't.
If she's honest with herself, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. Over the course of three seasons she's had suitors and had hopes... all which have come to nothing. But before the stakes were not as high as they are now, and this is the first time a suitor has actively fled her presence.
If only Edith had held her tongue about Mary and the Duke's tour of the servants' quarters. Certainly it was unusual—and spying in footmen's room didn't sit well with Mary—but he is a Duke. Mary had agreed to the unorthodox tour because what choice did she really have? Say no, and she'd look like a foolish girl, powerless in her own home to do anything without permission from Mama. What right does Edith have to question her?
If Mary is to be jilted and humiliated, must she have so many witnesses?
It had been easy enough to shut Edith down, but Mary can't hide her disappointment from herself. Just this morning the Duke had seemed just as pleased to see her as she was him. She's not sure exactly where she went wrong. Things had been going so well, and then when dinner ended suddenly they weren't.
If she's honest with herself, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. Over the course of three seasons she's had suitors and had hopes... all which have come to nothing. But before the stakes were not as high as they are now, and this is the first time a suitor has actively fled her presence.
If only Edith had held her tongue about Mary and the Duke's tour of the servants' quarters. Certainly it was unusual—and spying in footmen's room didn't sit well with Mary—but he is a Duke. Mary had agreed to the unorthodox tour because what choice did she really have? Say no, and she'd look like a foolish girl, powerless in her own home to do anything without permission from Mama. What right does Edith have to question her?
If Mary is to be jilted and humiliated, must she have so many witnesses?
