[ Not too long after, a letter finds its way to her in response, the handwriting on the parchment similarly neat β though apparently Emmrich was exempt from the gel pen rule. ]
My dear Pearl,
It is no intrusion at all β if anything, I am glad you would see fit to share such a thing with me. I suppose I've made little secret of what I can do, but I've long understood that such a thing is hardly a barometer by which I ought to form my expectations of the behavior of others.
And thank you, of course, for your very kind words.
If the idea does not displease you, perhaps further conversation would be better served by an environ of our own choosing, rather than another of the house's revels?
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