Elizabeth was taking off her jewelry as she listened to them talk, laying the pretty baubles flat on the dressing table, the pearl earrings joining the necklace, "Is the present bigger than a breadbox?" She asked.
Charles chuckled, as Mary answered, "No," she said rolling her eyes, "It's also not a breadbox." She added making Elizabeth smile.
It was a joke in the family, they had been stuck in a warehouse all day waiting for the evening after a maid had stumbled into their room and found two dead bodies Mary had forgotten to deal with the previous night. The had left the hotel in a mad rush much to the annoyance of Fiona and Ciaran, to pass the daylight hours they had played round after round of twenty questions. Elizabeth and Ciaran had been the hardest to figure out with their item
