She felt herself shaking again. I quickly ingratiated myself to Gianfrancesco, playing on his insecurities, drawing from his need for more and more power. She did not think Ann Veronica would do as her companion. She came to spend hours with the bastard children that the women brought, dressing and feeding the tiny ones, inventing games for the older ones. Hilary Roding was all soldier now, his earlier grievances laid aside. It was in fact the first embrace of motherhood she had ever known. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. ’ The lady’s gaze dwelled thoughtfully on the half-drawn sword and then came up to meet his, an odd look in her eyes. ‘That there governess didn’t like it, of course, me being the lodgekeeper’s girl, and Martha just a country wench like me.
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