I LOVE seeing how you guys react to and interpret things as we go along. It teaches me so much about what reads and what doesn't, and how things look to an outsider. I love y'all!
...Beauty, do you make a habit into falling into bodies of water? You just have the worst luck when it comes to water. I almost don't want you to have swimming lessons, considering Megan's fondness for drowning people, apparently. And heh, now we know how Virtue and Claude got to know each other. Nice.
Father and daughter are so precious here. And I really appreciate Papa's characterization. Everyone wants to protect him, but he's not nearly as weak as he is in several adaptations.
I wonder where it's all leading?