Even without them… How would she and Charlotte get out of this? What on God's green earth was she going to say to Lady Adina?
Charlotte held Penelope close as they sat on the floor and whispered, "Play along with me. We were together in the dungeon playing billiards, and—and drinking wine."
Penelope nodded.
"I'll explain later."
“Yes,” Penny said, sitting next to Charlotte, holding her hand tight, on the carpet in the middle of the hallway.
"Is everything alright, Penelope?" her great-aunt asked.
"Yes, Aunt," Penelope replied. She would go to Hades for lying to Aunt Adina. But she would lie anyway. “Charlotte and I were down in the dungeon."
“Being dungeoned, and… billiarded and…” Charlotte was such an amazing thespian. Penelope might have these skills, too, if she had the annoying
