Swiftcurrent Creek back to the old house

Another stranger joined the conversation. Leonore found her tone to be bothersome. Who was she to speak to her as though she had any authority over her choices? Forthright, she had said. She had asked why.

"He might not know how he looks." She responded. That was the partial truth, of course. She chose not to mention the motivations from the absence of her mother - after all Morwenna could report her cruel words if she did so. It was important that maman did not find out - she would be quite disappointed.