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“I’ll be sure to tell her”

“Bah She knows that already, and you’re avoiding the question”

“My prospects,” Hyacinth replied, “as you so delicately put it, are the same as ever”

“Such is the probleirl, need a husband”

“Are you quite certainyou lines?”

“See?” Lady Danbury said with a wide se”

Hyacinth just stared at her “You have gone quite mad, did you know that?”

“Bah I’ e, I promise”

“I enjoy it now,” Hyacinth said

“True,” Lady Danbury conceded “And it’s probably why you’re still unmarried”

“If there were an intelligent unattached h, “I assure you I would set my cap for him” She let her head cock to the side with a sarcastic tilt “Surely you wouldn’t see me married to a fool”

“Of course not, but—”

“And stop h to figure out what you’re up to”

Lady D gasped in full huff “I didn’t say a word”

“You were about to”