Chapter 43: The Monsters Wife is a Witch.
3rd table
Baron’s Manse, Critic Arley.
There’s always only four people in a table of five and Lydia wondered why, it doesn’t seem like they don’t want the fifth person, it just doesn’t get occupied, like an unspoken ordinance. She positioned both her palms on her lap and waited for the following information.
"I took notice that an invitation was sent to that new thing for the lord" someone whispered because Theodore is a monster no one wants to talk about, and now this table is interesting, Lydia sat straighter waiting.
"What lord?" another asked with low interest
The first one scoffed "Lord Theodore, you dim lady" she pointed out, playing with her spoon.
The now curious lady didn’t bother with the low insult, she said instead "Oh, you know Isha is a friend of the family, tell us about the doll" She turned to Isha who sat prim in a grey gown, her words soft and almost kind. The table consisted of Isha, Abigail, the curious one and the news bringer.
"One thing I know is that she is a witch" Isha muttered surely, her eyes holding each one of them and managing to miss the presence of Lydia, perhaps because Lydia was always in dungarees back at home and never made her hair or face.
"I was at her house yesterday" Abigail announced eliciting gasps from the table and the one next to it, they were listening in too.
"The Lord’s Mansion?!" the lady who brought about the invitation asked stupidly.
"Keep your voice down Archibald we know how much you’ve wanted to be in her shoes" the gossip monger said.