““I think that’s Miss Victorine now with your breakfast. Are you hungry?” “Do you expect me to sit here like a bloody fool and eat a meal?” “You’ll always be a bloody fool, there’s nothing to be done about that, and I don’t care if you starve to death.” Moving to the bottom of the stairway, she took the tray from Miss Victorine’s hand. “But right now you have to maintain a modicum of health or we won’t get our money.””
