"Indeed," she answers, thinking of it fondly. "It was a place I would go once every seven years for an extended weekend. That's about all the time I can stand sitting around doing nothing." She is British to the core, after all. "The villa itself is large enough, very spread out so that I have plenty to do just by walking across it. I don't often take people with me when I go. Usually, I need everyone else to stay with their respective Sanctuaries while I'm otherwise occupied. Besides, I wouldn't want everyone knowing my Italian secret."
She isn't certain why she's about to tell him one of her best-kept secrets. Perhaps it's their connection, the bond between them that speaks of trust and compassion. It isn't as though this secret is a particularly vile one, but it isn't something she normally has time for and no one really knows about it. What Will would think if he knew... Declan knows, she's certain, only because James knew and James was there when she was learning. She smiles and leans back on one arm as she thinks about it all.
"It's the only place I have a piano. My mother would be ashamed if she knew. She taught me to play when I was much, much younger. Said all young girls of good breeding needed to know how." Comes with being born in the Victorian era. It wasn't something she'd ever tried to teach Ashley as her daughter had been born into a much different culture and she doubted Ashley would ever have had the patience for such a venture. She tilts her head in his direction to see how he's responding to this revelation. "I don't play much anymore. Don't have the time or the reason to."