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[kitchen_maid]

There are certain people Amy just doesn't get to talk to as much as she should, or she'd like to. And her former employer and sometime host, sister of one friend and wife of another, is pretty near the top of that list

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[kitchen_maid]

"I always have time for tea," says Amy, grandly. "Unless there are frightfully dull ambassador's wives waiting about to take it with me, and then I still have time for it, just as little as possible."

She grins.

"And you've not properly met Susan yet, I don't think."

[kitchen_maid]

"Biscuits would be lovely, and sound much simpler than sandwiches," says Amy. "There's no cause at all for fuss."

[kitchen_maid]

"You, like my brother, forget to eat?" Amy grins. "I'm one of the people who chases after the people who forget to eat with trays of food.

"Sometimes literally.

"Sandwiches would also be lovely, whichever you'd prefer. Or I suppose we could be terribly bold and have both."

Susan, tired of being ignored by her mama and the narration, burbles an approving trill of sounds.

[kitchen_maid]

"Well, she's very fond of putting things in her mouth, but she hasn't any teeth yet, so . . ." Amy grins.

Susan makes a bit of a face.

"And I never spent much time around babies before Susan arrived," says Amy. "But I have a lot of help."

[kitchen_maid]

"Old enough to wander off and get into trouble?" Amy asks. "At least Susan stays where I put her when I set her down.

"I saw Ingress in the bar the other night, but how is Gavroche these days?"

[kitchen_maid]

"I think the fretting is to be expected and is completely unavoidable," says Amy, smile going a bit wry.

"And how are you, Door?"

[kitchen_maid]

"Much the same," she says. "I'm well and happy and so are Susan and Perry, but I am frightfully tired of talking to my husband's Protocol Officer about the christening, and if I have to spend one more minute with the Arch Duchess Marina I think I'll run mad. She never stops talking, and about the most dull subjects she can think of."

[kitchen_maid]

"She's seventy-nine, deaf as a post, incredibly conscious of her rank, and a distant relative of one of Perry's grandmothers. She doesn't approve of me in the slightest, I think because she has three or four granddaughters and Perry didn't marry a one of them. And so she talks very loudly about how accomplished they are, and ennumerating their accomplishments."

Amy grins.

"She also falls asleep in the middle of meals on occasion."