[ It's a grateful look— a little tentative, but mostly grateful— and then she comes in enough to shut the door behind her. For a moment she is still, flickering through choices in her mind and holding them up one after another as if trying to decide which earrings best accompany her dress, and then she comes to sit in one of the chairs at his desk rather than going to her own. ]
I had tea with Miss Poppell this afternoon.
[ Orlesian still, the sovereign language of the office. ]
I had offered to find out more about why she and Byerly had fought, and why she now entirely refuses to speak with him.
[ She doesn't know if it had come up between the two men, but if there is ever a moment to affirm their relationship that is the road she chooses, and so the news is delivered as if she believes it has. ]
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I had tea with Miss Poppell this afternoon.
[ Orlesian still, the sovereign language of the office. ]
I had offered to find out more about why she and Byerly had fought, and why she now entirely refuses to speak with him.
[ She doesn't know if it had come up between the two men, but if there is ever a moment to affirm their relationship that is the road she chooses, and so the news is delivered as if she believes it has. ]