A GUIDE TO COURTSHIP

, a place that may or not be fictional for they are yet to discover it from the

of her childhood in a place and society built hundreds of feet below

sed the twins hunger

torian or Edwardian or whatever era it is, but if my calculation is right, you and gramp got together in year 2028 or so. That is no anc

king at their grandmother for clues. "Unless it is real a

me to think about, Ve

mother simp

ou just tell us everything?

s on her chest, "that you came not to be with yo

u both, of course," Valerie said in haste, "bu

s complicated at best, but it was utterly rewarding in the end. You can ask him about how we star

ords. He'd simply take the fun out of the story to get it done, po

the tale, but they both knew th

p her hands in surrender. "We will wait un

never told us," Valerie said

" the old w

r told us!" t

rose to form a questioning

Who would have thought that their gra

she was young." The twins had a sudden urge to call their mother, but the woman was pretty much like their grandfather. She would be a sore storyteller. F

ion of the guest room when Valerie stopped to face

d need a far greater time than a weekend with you two t

ated me, but I never thought she could be like that. Reading the th

got themselves dragged into Meriwether and the bandits-but I was surprised of her character. I still am, actually." She paused before she continued, "I wonder, since you

f everything." Her eyes twinkled at the memory. "Emma may be fun and the two of them could do so many crazy things when they put their minds to it, but Emma is not as much fun without Ysabella. Emma had her own quirks, but Ys

ed, in fact," Violet added with a snort. "Wa

yes, but what she felt toward Lord Wakefield

rie said. "Even I thought she'd get over the guy, but I

e ventured into that memory. "Ysabella Everard was one of the bravest girls I had ever known. She loved fully, lived h

f one man," Va

dded. "All beca