@mqryalice sent: 'he did what to you?'
Protect your local butch !!
QUITE the glare is tossed into her lady’s direction, though it rather suffers from the lopsidedness that results from sporting a black eye; and thus loses a certain portion of its efficacy. Truly, there is no greater thorn in Anne’s side than redundancy in all things, first and foremost in worry. Must the woman ask? Is her bruised face not answer enough, and does her sullen mien not denote how LITTLE she wishes to speak of the affair?!
Anne’s half-gaze drops into the distance. She averts her roughed-up features with a defiant twitch of her head. If she is loath to give account of her kerfuffle by the road-side, then it fills her with a more fearsome reluctance still to be witnessed in its unattractive aftermath. Certainly, thinks she, by her dear Mrs Young, who should NEVER be given reason to think her anything but admirable!
“ You ought sooner ask what I did to him, ” Anne mutters, pulling forth her handkerchief and pressing it rather gruffly against her swollen cheek-bone. “ The drunk wretch. ” Well, well: how disagreeable is she with her treasured friend! But surely, there will be time and opportunity enough to patch up whatever injuries offence has slain. Not now, though. First, she must follow the needs of the heart: some brandy, and a good deal of solitude in subsequence. THIS, after all, is nothing flowers may help with.