"It's not your fault. You were made to be enchanting to gentlemen, not to clean a grate."
"More than that, I hope," Mary said. Annie made it sound lovely: being 'enchanting to gentlemen', and at Little Holland House it had felt that way, but it didn't seem worth much tonight. What was the point of enchanting gentlemen if you couldn't help someone you loved in trouble, or even take a carriage where you wanted? It still rankled Mary very much that Felix had been so cross about that carriage ride. She was a prisoner unless he deigned to let her out. He thought of himself as her master - not her friend or anything more.
Following Ophelia, P299
Sophia Bennett
ISBN 978-1-84715-810-9
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