The woman shrugged and listened to him speak. She glanced over to listen about his brother and Darwin. "Oh? And then he couldn't defend himself at last. I think that's the real truth about violence." She didn't like it at all, but had no answers for it. And certainly sometimes violence had to be rewarded with violence, she guessed.

"What?" She said confused about Whitaker's wife. Why bring her up?

Evelyn rose a brow and a strange look of realization came to her eyes. She actually managed to stifle the smile that tempted her lips. "You could have simply ordered a servant to do it. But you did it yourself. Thank you for humbling yourself for a nobody like me."