Quiet Little Mice

[Penelope Humphrey-Mavis]

It wasn’t exactly that Penny objected to having their cousins in the house – the estate was so big that she could ignore them or the most part or at least pretend they were staff if push came to shove – but she had ever been entirely successful with other people her own sort of age. For the most part she found them tedious or stupid and she was rarely proven wrong in her prejudice.

But Olivia had sought out a library. And appeared to have a book in her hands. Both of these things recommended her to Penny more than any conversation ever could.

“There’s no need,” she waved Olivia into the room properly and glanced down at the book in her hand. “What are you reading?”