It was quite plain to Patience that Christine did not wish to discuss her escape from France, which made it all the more impossibly tempting for Patience but she restrained herself from questioning. There would come a time, maybe, when the young woman was willing to talk.
“Oh, I will!” She said, taking a cup from the servant and sipping at it. “There are quite a lot, and I must admit the awful happenings in your country have brought quite the number of fine young French men to our door.” Struck by a thought she smiled widely. “Why speaking of that, my dear Cousin, the next Lord Worthington, would be a most excellent match. His sister is an eccentric of the French Court and takes after their mother but he is superbly English although he spent his childhood in Versailles. Their father was the English Ambassador there. ”