Lady Champlaine looks startled at being asked. Eventually she says...
"Well, I'd like to get to know the this perspective bride," Lady Champlaine
finally says, "By Allarian custom, the mother of the groom
at least gets a day alone with the perspective bride......if she deems
it necessary."
Annafrid seemed like a nice woman, but Champlaine really did wish to
at least to get a better sampling of her character, and that was usually
done by interview.
Before coming to this new world, woman had had some say in who
their son's and daughters married....if albeit from behind the scenes.
She had adjusted well enough to Aqualarian customs, but this facet had
taken her by surprise.....so the interview was even MORE important now
that before.
Annafrid looked over at Astra and Jarlath, then at the smiling Duke
Drederick (who's learned well enough from long experience that when Lady
Champlaine put her mind to it....she could be a most formidable woman indeed....even
though she could appear to be very quiet in public).
"Don't worry," Drederick whispers to Annafrid as she and his wife
begin to leave for a long session. "Just....be yourself."
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Dred had
a good feeling about Annafrid, and liked her......
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