Interlude: Dear Lord Croom
Pemberley, Derbyshire, August 27, 18__
My Lord Croom,
I am writing on a matter of some urgency concerning your wife, and your own health.
While I should prefer to have my husband reach out to your lordship, he is at the moment in London, and so it is left to me. I apologize for writing so without having first had the opportunity meet you in person. Unfortunately, I have had a most distressing encounter with Lady Croom, which forces me to overstep the dictates of propriety.
I regret to inform you that I came upon Lady Croom in a state of great agitation, searching through the Pemberley woods for a set of poisonous mushrooms that she and I had been warned of some days ago by Mrs Grouse, the midwife. I was quite astonished that her ladyship should be undertakin
