To Anabel it didn’t matter if Delaney missed the look she’d been giving her. If she got too stupidly happy about it then Anabel would happily point that out. Having a baby was all well and good for those that wanted to have them, but Anabel didn’t have the patience or inclination to sit through listening to the person wax on about it for any length of time. “I think it’s the hormones. Nature’s way to make sure that a baby is wanted and taken care of. Nature should mind it’s own damn business.” Was that making her sound like too much of a bitch? “Not that you shouldn’t want your child, but some people should stick with not wanting it and doing something about it.” The world would have been better if some people hadn’t kept their child(ren), such as the Weasleys.
The journals were amazing inventions if they could just convince people to use them correctly. All personal messages should be warded as such, including someone spreading the good news of a marriage or whatnot. It didn’t take long to ward it to a few people or even a large group of people and it’d save everyone else from having to thumb through the entries they didn’t want to see to get to the ones they did. But that wasn’t a conversation for now and it wasn’t even a conversation really worth having since nothing would ever change. She could just be glad that Delaney and Daphne and the few others who mattered used them right.
“Did he really?” Some men really didn’t understand the idea of how to go about such things. Warrington’s reaction was most definitely wholly inappropriate and deserved a good dressing down and so Anabel completely approved of how Delaney handled it. “I can understand him not wanting the child to be born out of wedlock, but he should have realized that the mother, you, would have a say in it as well. He can’t expect you to bend to his will.”
Which of course was the real issue because most pureblood men would expect just that if they were raised in the old pureblood ways. It wasn’t like she hadn’t been told by her parents that she was expected to marry a proper pureblood young man young and basically become a brood mare until he got his heir. That was actually one of the few pureblood ideals that Anabel most certainly didn’t prescribe to. “How lovely. Well here is to hoping that he isn’t Warrington’s then just so you don’t have to continue with the entire idea of him trying to force marriage down your throat. He needs to obviously get with how things are now.”