To my no great surprise the observation provoked more laughter from the three before the faded Southern-Belle continued:
But the more I’m free to give thought to the subject the more I realise it was I who controlled the household and those within it. In fact, I’m becoming more and more convinced that had it not been for the fact he was from old money, and blessed with all the control and power wealth of such a kind brings, our… relations… with each other may well have taken a quite different course.”
Another pause followed, then:
“But I interrupted you, Nirupa. You were about to tell me why you continue to refer to dog there as your ‘servant’.”
I knew without doubt now that – though she was not in possession of the mystical and evil powers that had brought me to my current pass – the
