04-18-2021, 12:47 PM
[CW: sexism]
Was she done with school then? That would send her away for a while. He didn’t know. Perhaps she was too old, or perhaps she hadn’t gone at all and had been tutored at home. In which case surely marriage would be her chance to escape. Wasn’t she old enough for that? Or did she have weird notions like Pearl. For the hundredth time that week, the concern crossed his mind that women weren’t women anymore these days. But he hoped Miss Ennington was only pining for a husband.
His brows furrowed together when she mentioned her sister. Another unchaperoned young lady out and about? Her parents had to be as crazy as his were. “Oh no, Miss Ennington. It would be no bother at all. My pleasure indeed. I do hope your sister at least has a companion? There’s pickpockets and rough folk about.”
Was she done with school then? That would send her away for a while. He didn’t know. Perhaps she was too old, or perhaps she hadn’t gone at all and had been tutored at home. In which case surely marriage would be her chance to escape. Wasn’t she old enough for that? Or did she have weird notions like Pearl. For the hundredth time that week, the concern crossed his mind that women weren’t women anymore these days. But he hoped Miss Ennington was only pining for a husband.
His brows furrowed together when she mentioned her sister. Another unchaperoned young lady out and about? Her parents had to be as crazy as his were. “Oh no, Miss Ennington. It would be no bother at all. My pleasure indeed. I do hope your sister at least has a companion? There’s pickpockets and rough folk about.”
