i thought you might appreciate an absence of men in histrionics but i see evan ruined it already

It is probably dangerous to want to go down to join her as much as he does, because even though this device and the way it is used is quite alien, the words are Narcissa without the added strangeness of anyone visibly younger attached to them. This is thus scrutinised a moment, before he, as with so many things lately, decides he doesn't care.

Wine and cigars will do.

coming

The light is shut out and the door closed behind him as he emerges from given room, and heads downstairs.