Oh, he's quite tiresome in conversation, it's true, but his poetry is unmistakably gifted. I'm fairly confident he was trying to look for patrons. He nearly cornered Mariah Pyle but she slipped off to the game table. And I know for a fact he bent June Calderwood's ear for twenty minutes before I pitied her enough to provide rescue. He even approached Pandora Baddock but I thought it best to come to her aid straight off. (Just because her husband and mine insist on foolishness, that does not mean she and I need to give your Sophia grist for Whirl's pages!)

You seem to have been working quite hard lately.

I understand - that is, I hear from Lucius that you were as surprised as I to see another Drumgoole in attendance. Are you If you It must have been disconcerting to learn in that manner that she had regained some measure of favour.