"I can't imagine Marigold's friend Beatrice would lie about it." she says. "The poor child seemed truly upset that the secret of her stepmother not being dead should leak out. Parents being seperated is still somewhat stigmatised in my time, and she'd already had to cope with losing her birth mother."
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"I can't imagine Marigold's friend Beatrice would lie about it." she says. "The poor child seemed truly upset that the secret of her stepmother not being dead should leak out. Parents being seperated is still somewhat stigmatised in my time, and she'd already had to cope with losing her birth mother."