Chapter3

#Chapter3

/"R

ose, give me my sandals/" Monica screamed as she chased Rose down the hallway into the sitting room where a young woman with red hair known as Lady Catherine, their mother was knitting

/"Why should I?/" Rose shouted back, Lady Catherine looked up from her knitting at her daughters shouting

/"What is going on?/" She asked and Monica stopped to look at her

/"Mother, Rose wouldn't give me my sandals/" she said and Catherine turned to Rose

/"Why Roseline?/" She asked

/"It’s too much mother, does she have to go out with him every day?/" She asked

Catherine turned to her older daughter /"I don't understand/" she said

/"Mother, I.../" Monica began but Rose interrupted

/"Why does she need to go out with the shrimp/" she said and Catherine frowned

/"Shrimp?/" She asked looking at Monica who immediately rushed to sit beside her

/"Mother, it's Lord Lugars, Rose has taken to the habit of addressing him as a shrimp/" Monica said

/"Why Roseline?/" She asked

/"Mother he is a shrimp, he looks like one/"

/"That is not lady like to say/" Catherine said /"besides, he is likely to be your sister's husband/"

/"Oh mother, I have told her exactly that a lot of times but she wouldn't listen/" Monica complained

/"But mother, he is seeing her too much, how would he show respect for her if she answers at beck and call, they saw each other last eve, and the one before and the one before it, it’s too much/" Roseline said

/"But it is the number of them that they spend together will determine whether he will propose or don't you want your sister to get married?/" Catherine said and Roseline walked closer to them

/"Mother, I do want her to get married, but it’s not a must it will be the shrimp/" she said

/"Don't call him that Roseline, you are a lady and it's time you start acting like one, just because you reject your young admires doesn't mean other's will too, Roseline you are turning sixteen, you are not getting younger, when will you start giving the young Lords a chance? Or don't you want to get married?/"

/"Of cause I will get married mother, I am only but fifteen.../"

/"And eleven months/" Catherine said /" Lady Marsha got married at fourteen, so don't deem yourself to small /"

/"But mother, Monica needs to marry before I do/"

/"Then give her a chance to and not addressing her suitor as a shrimp/" Catherine said and Monica nodded

/"Mother.../" Rose began

/"Give her, her sandals Rose before she runs late, a young Lady must be diligent/" Catherine said

/"No mother, if he doesn't see her today, he won't die/" she said and moved away from them

/"Roseline/" Catherine shouted and the door to the sitting room was thrown open, following that walked in a very tall man with black hair, looking at him, one will know that he is a very respectable man just by his presence

/"What is going on here?/" The man asked and Roseline rushed to him immediately

/"Father, sister wants to go out with him again/" she complained

/"With whom?/" He asked looking at Monica, who looked at her palms immediately

/"It’s Lord Lugars father/" she said softly

/"Oh/" Harold Schick said /"the shrimp/" he said and Monica and Catherine looked at him shocked while Roseline giggled

/"Harold/" Catherine shouted

/"Father/" Monica shouted too

/"Did I say something wrong? Rose here made me see the resemblance, he really does look like a shrimp/" he said and Rose giggled while Monica looked solemn, of cause he is going to side Rose, she thought

/"That is not nice of you to say, don't tell me you are encouraging the way she speaks, if she continues to be this blunt, tell me Harold will you marry your daughter?/" Catherine asked and Harold sighed

/"She is but a girl, let her have some fun/" he said

/"Girl? Fun? Her mates are getting married Harold, aren't you just coming from an engagement party of your friend's daughter? Don't you want them to come witness yours? Or you just want to attend theirs/" she said and Harold sighed

/"I am not rushing my daughters into marriage Catherine, if a man don't come, heaven knows I can take care of them very much/" he said

/"But they deserve a name/"

/"Of cause they have a name, what is mine, a rock?/" He asked

/"Harold.../"

/"Catherine, when their time comes they will get married, after all, where will they find Ladies as beautiful as mine/" he said and the two sisters smiled, if it's for doting? Harold really doted on his daughters, everybody knows that. Catherine sighed, he always win with that sentence every time.

/"Rose give your sister her sandals, she has a nice Lord waiting for her/"

/"No mother, she should stay at home today/" she insisted and Catherine sighed and then turned to Monica

/"Go and put on mine, the one you love so much/" she said and Monica's eyes brightened immediately, she threw herself at her mother

/"Oh thank you mother thank you, you are the best/" she said happily while Roseline was boiling up in anger

/"Mother/" she shouted and Catherine looked at her

/"Since you want to hold the sandals Rose, hold on to it, don't ever let it go/" she said and Monica turned to Rose and made a face before rushing to her mother's chamber to get the sandals, Rose looked at her father annoyed and he patted her head

/"If you want the sandals, I can get it for you love/" he said dotingly and she frowned

/"It's not the sandals father/" she said and Harold looks worried

/"Then what is it my dear?'

/" I just don't want her going out with the shrimp /" she said and he smiled

/"No matter how much you dislike him my darling, if your sister finds happiness with him, then you have to let them be, that's what is called family sacrifice/" he said and caressed her hair /"don't worry, by the time you find someone who makes you feel like that, you will understand that it's not of her doing/" he said and kissed her head before walking away, Rose starred after him before looking at her mother who has returned to her knitting, just then Lord Lugars entered and he appeared worried

/"Pardon me my Lady but I have been waiting for Lady Monica at our usual and she didn't show up, would she be alright?/" He asked Lady Catherine and just then Monica walked out

/"I am fine/" she said and he turned to look at her /"I apologise for delaying you my Lord/"

/"Oh no its okay my Lady, my most priority is your safety, so since you seem to be well, shall we go?/" He asked and she nodded

/"Mother I will be going out with Lord Lugars now/" she said

/"Have fun my dear, and Lugars, greet your mother for me/" Catherine said

/"But of cause my lady/" he said and bowed to her and then to Rose /"farewell Lady Rose/" he said before walking out with Monica and Rose starred after them.