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This worried Sophronia "Oh, dear Pill, will it detri?"

Pillover shook his head "No, increase it Bunson’s doesn’t hold traitorousness against a fellow After this, I’ll have moved up to Reprobate Genius One step closer to true Evil"

"Where’s Vieve?" Sophronia asked, assu that the little inventor would have been involved in any Bunson’s escapades

Pillover shrugged "Said she didn’t want to see large-scale destruction of her beloved technology Said she knew it’d be necessary, that you’d probably see to it, but she’d rather not know the details"

Sophronia wondered if Vieve had been thinking of the Pickleh to have realized all along that the airship was the target It hardly mattered, and even if Sophronia asked, Vieve wouldn’t tell her Sophronia respected her all the more for that

"I left Bu

"Good decision" Sophronia approved, especially as London was likely rife with anti-ht about now "So why’d you do it, Pill? I thought you didn’t enjoy adventure"

"Did I say I enjoyed , nor did she say anything about the fact that he kept casting little sideways glances at Agatha

"Happy to have you here, Pill" Sophronia hid her own s his normal dour expression, "so you should be"

Dimity tutted "Heaven forfend you enjoy yourself, you woh she did look a tiny bit sood hand fervently "What happened after Monique left you? Please don’t keep us in suspense any longer We were so worried"

She led Sophronia over to a cluster of chairs around a tea table, so Soap Sophronia chose a seat that allowed her to keep an eye on her olf She wasn’t ready to let hih

Still full froured there was always roo gratefully, she leaned back and told theize, Lady Linette There seemed no other way"

Her for "We kneas coirls, I’m afraid, are creatures of the past Admissions have declined steadily over the years No one wants their daughter to be an intelligencer anyain?" Sophronia was saddened by this

Lady Linette and Sister Mattie exchanged looks

"Not as such," Lady Linette explained "Made a school for underprivileged boys, training thes Professor Lefoux is intent on returning to France--she says England has gotten too co about Cornwall, weren’t you, dear? I don’t knohat I’ll do Fortunately, I’led her eyebrows, and for the first ti her usual heavy face paint "I am a mite exhausted by the work I’ve been at this for three decades now" She gave a delicate little shudder

Agatha looked sober "Thirty years is a lot of Sophronias to deal with"