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"Elizabeth!" Lady D boo roo," Elizabeth muttered

"I heard that, too!"

Elizabeth lifted her brows and mouthed, "See?" in Caroline's direction

Caroline opened her lance toward the sitting roorabbed her notebook out of Elizabeth's hands, snatched a quill off the writing table that sat in the hall, and scribbled so

Elizabeth looked down and read:

She terrifies me

She nodded "She does that to most people"

"Elizabeth!"

"Maw"

Elizabeth shook her head "I can't believe she brought her cat"

"ELIZABETH!"

"I think you had better go in and see to her," Caroline whispered

Elizabeth sighed, walking toward the sitting room with the slowest steps possible Lady Danbury would surely have an opinion on the hu, and Elizabeth would surely have to sit still while >he gave it Her only consolation was that she was dragging Caroline along with her

"I'll wait here," Caroline whispered

"Oh, no, you don't," Elizabeth shot back "I listened to your lecture Now you have to listen to hers"

Caroline'swithher hand around Caroline's arm, "and that is final"

"But--"

"Good day, Lady Danbury," Elizabeth said, sh clenched teeth as she poked her head into the sitting room "This is certainly a surprise"

"Where have you been?" Lady Danbury deht in Elizabeth's favorite threadbare chair "I have been waiting for hours"

Elizabeth raised a brow "I've only been gone for fifteen row cheekier every day, Elizabeth Hotchkiss"

"Yes," Elizabeth said with a hint of a smile, "I do, don't I?"

"Hmmph Where's my cat?"

"Maaaaaaa!''

Elizabeth turned around to see a flash of ecru fur streak down the hall, followed by two squealing children "I believe he's currently occupied, Lady Danbury"

"Hmmph Bother the cat I'll deal with him later I need to speak with you, Elizabeth"

Elizabeth yanked Caroline into the room "Have you met Mrs Ravenscroft, Lady Danbury?''