Lillian Donovan looked as though she'd just had an epiphany, her face full of curiosity. "Oh, right, so there are layers to this? It means that even though he's a bit of a tyrant, he still compromises with you sometimes, doesn't he?"
Lucy Ingram blushed and grumbled, "It was a matter of principle, so how could he compromise? Besides, he has to really piss me off and get banished to the study before he admits he's wrong. I think he does it on purpose. He might agree out loud, but deep down, he's probably still completely against it."
"..."
Lillian Donovan felt like she was being force-fed a public display of affection. As someone with her own relationship experience, how could she not see that their so-called "disputes" were nothing more than the cutesy, lovey-dovey squabbles of a couple?
"So, after all that, I was just a damn part of your little game? If I ever get genuinely worked up on your behalf again, I'm an idiot."
