"Yes... Why can't they leave it?" she was genuinely distressed by such a story circulating in the press... especially when it wasn't all true. It was mortifying! She sighed and Tilly came in the room, "Tea please, lots of it, Tilly. Thank you." The maid bobbed a curtsy and then took off to the kitchen to prepare the brew.

Pearl began to pace and said, "I just want to be left alone about it but it's coming back to haunt me, as if they don't think I have feelings about it. They only care about what the readers think."