[Ironically, they're both so terribly concerned about ensuring that the other feels comfortable that they've trapped themselves in an awkward cycle of dancing around the subject. Mutual attractions can be awfully inconvenient.
Talk of family, however, relaxes her in such a way that she is permitted to ease herself onto the sofa as well. It is perhaps less formal this way with them sitting next to each other, rather than a traditional tea setting with chairs on opposite sides of a table, but the familiarity is refreshing when she works in such a stiff environment.
Four brothers. She can't imagine the family reunions.]
Ah...yes, just one. Older by nine years, but he's the only family I have left. [The only one who matters, anyway, as the extended aunts and uncles and cousins came out of the woodwork like vultures after the passing of Lord Carnahan and his wife.] Our parents died when I was sixteen.
I expect Jonathan is in Thebes now, on a dig.
[Far be it from Evelyn to be jealous of her brother, but he does have the luxury of picking up and starting a dig wherever he likes. She misses Egypt's heat.]
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Talk of family, however, relaxes her in such a way that she is permitted to ease herself onto the sofa as well. It is perhaps less formal this way with them sitting next to each other, rather than a traditional tea setting with chairs on opposite sides of a table, but the familiarity is refreshing when she works in such a stiff environment.
Four brothers. She can't imagine the family reunions.]
Ah...yes, just one. Older by nine years, but he's the only family I have left. [The only one who matters, anyway, as the extended aunts and uncles and cousins came out of the woodwork like vultures after the passing of Lord Carnahan and his wife.] Our parents died when I was sixteen.
I expect Jonathan is in Thebes now, on a dig.
[Far be it from Evelyn to be jealous of her brother, but he does have the luxury of picking up and starting a dig wherever he likes. She misses Egypt's heat.]