Nonsense, [ he responds decisively, as if offended by the very notion that the community would truly just abandon this girl to her fate. ] That is complete nonsense, Miss Marsh, if you'll forgive my saying so. Of course you have other places you can go... any number of better options than here, surely!
[ Somehow Irving seems to be getting used to this unspeakably strange method of communication, or at least he's managed to shuffle it behind any number of far more pressing concernsβ disturbing though it may be to him, it's to a degree that can easily be postponed, for now. ]
Although I... I'd... hesitate to suggest where in particular you should be welcomeβ
[ He speaks carefully, because while he very much wants to help, he can't think of how to invite Kate into his and Little's home even temporarily in a manner that seems, well... appropriate. Obviously he has only the best and most wholesome of intentions in mind, and no doubt whatsoever that the same must also be said for Little, but young girl sharing a home with two unmarried men...?
Though she is, after all, still clearly a child, so perhaps he's simply overthinking how such an arrangement might appear to anyone else. It's so hard to know anymore in a place like this, like Milton, which seems to have almost no baseline to speak of in terms of standard propriety. ]
I-I'll speak to Edward, as I'm sure he must agree that this simply won't do. We'll find an alternative for you post-haste.
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[ Somehow Irving seems to be getting used to this unspeakably strange method of communication, or at least he's managed to shuffle it behind any number of far more pressing concernsβ disturbing though it may be to him, it's to a degree that can easily be postponed, for now. ]
Although I... I'd... hesitate to suggest where in particular you should be welcomeβ
[ He speaks carefully, because while he very much wants to help, he can't think of how to invite Kate into his and Little's home even temporarily in a manner that seems, well... appropriate. Obviously he has only the best and most wholesome of intentions in mind, and no doubt whatsoever that the same must also be said for Little, but young girl sharing a home with two unmarried men...?
Though she is, after all, still clearly a child, so perhaps he's simply overthinking how such an arrangement might appear to anyone else. It's so hard to know anymore in a place like this, like Milton, which seems to have almost no baseline to speak of in terms of standard propriety. ]
I-I'll speak to Edward, as I'm sure he must agree that this simply won't do. We'll find an alternative for you post-haste.