“The linen room,” Héloïse said at breakfast on the eleventh day. “Today. You and I, and nobody else, and we are going to put it right.”
Nell had been awake since four with forty pages of guild engagement terms on the bed and no fourth way out of them, and she looked up over her tea with her eyes full of grit.
“Why today?”
“Because it has been shut since November and the linen is rotting in it, and neither Bess nor Joan will go in alone, and I have been letting them not go in alone for eleven months rather than go in myself.” Héloïse put her cup down. “And because you said on Wednesday that you were going to stop looking for what was in my house, and I have been thinking since about what I have been doing instead of looking, and the answer is a great…
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