Chapter 143: Lady Priscilla (2)
"I learned a lot from my mother and governess, but I learned so much more when I married Edmund Collins. His name and my father’s name were enough to stop the common folk from troubling me, but my peers were bold," said Priscilla.
"Most will fear Edgar and Tyrion, but others assume that you will not run to tell. Or that the fights they have with you will stay between women. There will come many times when you must show that you are a force to be reckoned without the help of your father and husband."
Priscilla remembered how ladies only feared her former husband, Edmund. They were afraid to say anything wrong before Edmund, but tried to trouble her. Behind his back. She had only married into the Collins family and didn’t have a close relationship with her mother-in-law, so she started rocky.
"My first year as Priscilla Collins was my hardest. When Edmund wasn’t at my side, the women tried to trouble me. I had to show them that I could stand on my own as Priscilla. I made them fear me," Priscilla said.
"I am a terrible person," Priscilla said, picking up a biscuit after she spoke.
Penelope frowned. "Don’t you mean that you were a terrible person? You are quite wonderful."
"To you, your siblings, and parents, because I care for you. To the other women, I am terrible, and I will not change it. It is how I survive," Priscilla replied.
Even at her current age, some women tested Priscilla. Priscilla did what she needed to remind them not to trouble her.
"I’ve done awful things to get my way. I have killed people who didn’t deserve to die, but how I have handled the ladies around me is not something I regret. I am telling you to kill anyone," Priscilla clarified.