*Evan’s insufferable smile grates on him. He knows too well; had it been at fifteen that she’d cut his head open with a thrown lamp, or at sixteen? One could never remember.
So there’s to be no negotiation on that front. Baldev had hoped at least to try: he’d sent out feelers already to purchase replacements--but Cabinets capable of cross-Continental trips, approved by both Ministries--well. They might even have to have them built, a lengthy process comprising visits to artisans and wand-quality-wood procurement and an endless parade of bribes, and in the meantime they were begging a favor and using the insufferable Chembarkars’, for this trip and all others. It’s a blow, there’s no doubt about that, and Amrita knows it, and so do these people, and that sets his teeth on edge. But there’s nothing for it. Not for the first time, he wishes his disappeared daughter had had the decency to stay disappeared.*
Which brings me to my next. It’s really not at all proper for her to be living with you before you are married. Surely you understand how that must appear.
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Date: 2011-06-02 04:28 pm (UTC)*Evan’s insufferable smile grates on him. He knows too well; had it been at fifteen that she’d cut his head open with a thrown lamp, or at sixteen? One could never remember.
So there’s to be no negotiation on that front. Baldev had hoped at least to try: he’d sent out feelers already to purchase replacements--but Cabinets capable of cross-Continental trips, approved by both Ministries--well. They might even have to have them built, a lengthy process comprising visits to artisans and wand-quality-wood procurement and an endless parade of bribes, and in the meantime they were begging a favor and using the insufferable Chembarkars’, for this trip and all others. It’s a blow, there’s no doubt about that, and Amrita knows it, and so do these people, and that sets his teeth on edge. But there’s nothing for it. Not for the first time, he wishes his disappeared daughter had had the decency to stay disappeared.*
Which brings me to my next. It’s really not at all proper for her to be living with you before you are married. Surely you understand how that must appear.