“Your brother!” Patience exclaimed, both surprised and rather delighted by that turn of events. She was rather confused as to why she was so happy to learn that Miss Christine was Merek’s sister rather than wife or mistress but she dismissed those worries from her mind. That was not important now. She knew something the gossip vine did not and that pleased her greatly.
“Oh I will, of course! There are ever-so-many young men looking for a wife. My own brother’s Charles and Simon to name but a few.” She said, deciding that the young woman was quite enchanting now she knew she was not a woman of ill-virtue and that they should form a friendship. “But you shouldn’t be surprised there was gossip. A strange, beautiful French woman newly arrived? You couldn’t stop tongues from wagging about something so exciting. Have you escaped that dreadful revolution too?”