Some 'Exciting' News

[Capricia Zabini]

Capricia was feeling very pleased with herself – she had only had the job for a little less than a week and not only had she felt a little more financially comfortable herself, but she had managed to secure her daughters financial future. Mister Malcorvus was a nice enough man – a little cold perhaps to begin with but he was exactly what Capricia had wanted for her children, a fine upstanding pureblood male. It was a good start.

Now she just needed to break the news to her daughter, she wasn’t entirely sure how Antonia would feel about an arranged marriage – she knew her daughter was prepared to marry for the benefit of the family but she wasn’t entirely sure that this was what she had signed up for. Still, it was too late to worry now, for the girl would marry Mister Malcorvus or be cast out on her own, a spinster with little prospects – it was a sad fate indeed.

Capricia asked the housemaid to fetch her daughter, they didn’t have much in the way a staff, a scullery maid who Capricia referred to as the housemaid, cook, parlour maid, and chamber maid in equal turns depending on who she was speaking to, but the girl functioned as a maid of all works for almost no wages and dutifully scurried off to collect the elder mistress of the house.

A few minutes later the door opened and Antonia entered. ’Ah my dear daughter’ Capricia gave her daughter a broad smile, and rose taking her daughters hands to guide her to sit beside her on the long sofa.

@'ANTONIA ZABINI'