[ marriage, she knows, is a truly sacred and beautiful vow. for some. for the jarvises, certainly. and she likes to think it must have been for her parents, too. for peggy...
well, at nineteen she broke off her engagement at the first whiff of something else. it wasn't another person (not yet, at any rate) but it troubled her long-suffering mother all the same. ]
If it feels as if no one else will ever do, Serge—[ she picks up his name from his introduction and wields it tactically now ]—then it's likely that no one ever will. Tradition only takes us so far. And duty—well, sometimes duty looks different than we expect.
[ once upon a time she might have thought that to be dutiful she needed to be a fashionable london wife to a boring whitehall officer. but duty comes in many shapes and flavours—and hers has grown, shifted, changed with the years. ]
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well, at nineteen she broke off her engagement at the first whiff of something else. it wasn't another person (not yet, at any rate) but it troubled her long-suffering mother all the same. ]
If it feels as if no one else will ever do, Serge—[ she picks up his name from his introduction and wields it tactically now ]—then it's likely that no one ever will. Tradition only takes us so far. And duty—well, sometimes duty looks different than we expect.
[ once upon a time she might have thought that to be dutiful she needed to be a fashionable london wife to a boring whitehall officer. but duty comes in many shapes and flavours—and hers has grown, shifted, changed with the years. ]
...Do you get along with your family?
[ will they support you no matter your choice? ]