She had never met a man she could read so clearly. Arms aching, perspiration dampening her face. She wasn’t going to get her own room tonight this time or even her own bed because she was supposed to share the bed. She was so heavily clothed in layers and jewelry that she was amazed that she could move. Getting undressed again promised to be a challenge, she thought ruefully. She decided that she will not change, as she knew she would have to answer for her disobedience to Jane as well as to me whenever I appeared. ‘It is symbolic,’ Ms. In the morning when She walked out of her room and an explosion of utterly unexpected color greeted her. In silence, she pulled a face because she hadn’t anticipated that, although she knew that she should’ve done. ‘Lucy stay where you are!’ I told her, incensed to see her outside and unprotected and wandering with a toddler’s absence of caution. Lucy had used more cosmetics than she normally did and had gone heavy on the eyeliner when urged to do so but at least there was nothing theatrical about the end result.
