If she was honest, Celeste has having a brief fantasy that the earth would swallow her up after the way Laurence Higgs' eyes had widened when she touched his arm. What had she been thinking? She had been trying to reassure him, but it wasn't at all proper for her to have done so in that manner. He probably thought she was some sort of, sort of... incredibly forward scarlet woman!
"Hmm, we shall see," Narcissa mused. She smiled. "I tend to agree, however. The future of the foundation seems very bright at the moment."