Dec 11

“I don’t know what it is with you lately, but if anyone else even talks to her you go into a strop.”

“That is an unfounded accusation and I resent it!”

“Unfounded! I asked her if I could borrow a quill yesterday and you slapped me!”

“You were being cheeky.”

“I said, “Lily, may I borrow a quill?” How is that cheeky?”

“It was the way you said it.”

“And how did I say it?”

“You know.”

“Humour me.”

“You did that—that eyebrow thing.”

“That thing where I have eyebrows? Because I do that an awful lot, it’d be fairly difficult for me to pick out one specific instance.”