"Has he?" She asked softly. "My only good brother broods quite a lot, you know, because his moral compass has things to say." Pearl cast a speculative glance her friend's way and squeezed her hand.

"What would you do if perhaps it was a dalience with somebody else? Would you be able to forgive him?" She did not know just how close to the truth she was, but her father sometimes was said to have bouts of guilt over possible daliences, also not knowing how close to that truth she was either. She only had experience of observation and overhearing things whispered among the servants.

She took a deep breath and then sighed. She supposed she would be a hypocrite if she did not speak to her father... perhaps even her mother. But what would she say?