Calling on Bridget
“Lord Brantley! I must confess, this is an absolute surprise I had no idea anyone would call on me.”
Bainbridge was shocked to hear her believe that. “That cannot be true. Surely you must’ve known … from the way I complimented you. Or from the way the gentleman with the brown hair and blue eyes looked at you I assume he also gave you enough compliments for you to know he’d be coming to see you today as well.”
He turned to her mother who just posed a question. “Which is why I ask your intentions with her.” Had he known what his intention in coming here was, he’d say it out loud and proud … But he can’t say that he intends to marry her becuase he doesn’t know how he feels about her yet. He’s in between friendship and love, stuck in it until he explores it more to know exactly what he’s feeling. He took so long thinking and not answering that he was interrupted by the chambermaid who probably thought the silence was just silence, not waiting for an answer. He thought he was saved from answering the question he had no answer to, but the mother insisted they not leave the room until he answers. So he had to give the only answer he thought would suffice for the mother and be truthful enough for him to not feel as if he’s saying something ahead of it’s time. “At this moment in time I have no dishonorable intentions, I assure you, but I also have no honorable intentions. I’m only visiting the woman I admire hoping it’s enough for everything else to fall into place.” He turned back to Bridget, even though he knows she would hear him perfectly well even if he wasn’t facing her, he felt as if the sound of his voice would be clearer if he faced her. “Bridget, I know you’re usually the one to put the twins to bed. Remeber, you told me last night how you sing them to sleep? I think they maybe won’t go to sleep becuase you’re not there to sing them your lullabies … I won’t mind if you go and take care of their nap times, I can stay here and entertain myself until you’re ready to see me again.”
@Bluecookies - Bridget, her mother and the chambermaid