Aug 20, 2015
Soly on Veya for thoughtful thursday :)
“It would be vulgar for my lover and I to turn our parallel pursuits into some manner of competition. That is not the only reason I am careful; and neither was it my impetus for inciting him to it. She has written to me with an invitation, and were I not in Perihelion I might well be in the Evergrove; I wait only to find some treasure worthy of her to convey my regard during this regrettable absence.
“And I wonder, too, at the provenance of her epithet. One might mistake a jessamine bloom for honeysuckle, but they would suffer for it. Does her beauty bely some poison, too? I intend to satisfy my curiosity.”