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Why does everything come to that?

To what? Death and taxes?

No...well, that is true also, but I was thinking about my ~~dismal reputation~~ family. I just got a position at a nice school, only to find out that one of their main patrons is the mother of a person my father's best friend killed.

Needless to say, she's none too happy about me being here.

Sounds convoluted. Besides depends on whether the bastard deserved it.

He didn't. It was over accusations of cheating at cards.

Cheating at cards, especially when there's stakes involved is death worthy. Basically boils down to stealing if you think about it.

Yes, but my father's friend was the one who was cheating. Mr. Adair noticed this, but Col. Moran shot him before he could prove it to the rest of the club.

I've gambled a lot. If you're going to step into a place where you know things can get like that, I believe you're taking your life into your own hands. If the danger is worth the money then you got to accept that the danger might be dished to you just as fast as the money.

It was a men's club in London. The Tankerville, I believe. Most people would not expect such things to happen in so "refined" an atmosphere. And the danger wasn't "dished" at the Tankerville. Moran followed Adair to his house and shot him through a window.

I didn't mean it had to be. Thing is gambling is a game of pride and greed when it is done for leisure. Only a fool expects that environment to be safe.

*shrugs* I was in France when it happened. I never knew Ronald Adair; by all accounts he was well-liked, although that is no guarantee of good sense.

I just wish the whole matter wasn't affecting me at the present time.

In all honesty sweetheart it shouldn't. You weren't there, you didn't shoot and if that other woman is holding it against you that's her problem.

Yes, but it's her making it my problem.

And you are letting her. Problems aren't a one sided cause or effect.

If it was a simple social problem, I would not care; however, she could have me dismissed, sir!

On what grounds?

*sigh*

In my case, I should scarcely think any. The headmistress is paranoid about scandal and lack of funding, and would gladly provide some exaggerated complaint to avoid "controversy."

So this woman is not the headmistress?

No...she is a wealthy aristocrat who donates a good deal of money to the school.

Why not tell the mistress what she'd up to or won't that matter because of the money?

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