“Could you describe her, Charlotte?” Ben asked.
“She"s perhaps five feet tall, with pale grey eyes and golden brown hair, which she"s wearing in an elaborate curled hairstyle, piled high on top of her head. She has a long gown in dark green velvet, it"s tightly pinched at the waist and there are little cuffs on the sleeves and she"s wearing one of those… frills around her neck.”
“A cartwheel ruff,” Ripley supplied.
“She"s wearing a necklace, which looks like a— flower; I think it"s perhaps a rose? It"s made up of rubies and emeralds, I think.”
“Mother wore a necklace like that,” Ripley agreed. “She wore it always; my father gave it to her.”
“I"m pleased you let me speak with you, Charlotte. You look much improved now you"ve come back to these people.”
I"m pleased you let me speak wit
