Okay, not really the conversation she wanted to have but she could skirt the reason she had betrayed St. Cyr. Because truthfully, she had no idea on the real reason Percy had kept the information from her. But from looking at the turn of events, what happened on their wedding day, it made sense that maybe he had learned of her involvement with St. Cyr's death then and how she had lied about the letter. But how would he have known about the letter?
"Our entire marriage though it was still fresh, not even a year. I only found out when I pieced it together three weeks ago, before I showed up here. Armand kept slipping and saying Percy would save us, and had always tried to assure me that Percy was good and strong and loyal when I would doubt because of the distance between us... but why he did not tell me, I am uncertain but it was most likely my own fault. When Chauvelin tricked me, he had me give him a location of a man Percy had been helping promising that they would not die and no harm would come to them. But he lied.... I think Percy learned of that but it was never brought up and instead he became distant..."
It was painful but true.
"I do not know if he would have eventually told me. When I was told to learn of his identity, I did manage to meet with him, but he stayed behind me as the Pimpernel and I explained everything. How my hand was being forced, what was being held over me and how I knew Chauvelin would kill Armand... perhaps after that, perhaps he would have told me, or perhaps he would have kept it a secret to protect me, but I would never betray that secret. I love him. No one really understands it, but I do... "
She was so definitive in her love of Percy. She was passionate, and even with Percy's death, she knew that passion of love for him remained in her heart, it was evident in the way she spoke of him.
"I do know he loved me, though. And that he came for us and we fought Chauvelin together..."