gossip was not boring. Gossip was not boring at all.
"How come I never knew that Estelle's maid was married secretly?!" I gasped. "Estelle would have known and she would have told me! And she was married to the son of a minister no less!"
Apparently, since I was for the first time interested in gossiping, Marilyn had told me as much as she could remember about the palace gossip.
Which was frankly a lot but it was also interesting.
"Yes! She was." Merlin nodded. "Almost all of us maids knew where she was meeting with her lover and we would secretly sneak and check if it was true and it was!"
Estelle would have her neck for that.
Also, If damage had so much time on their hands, to sneak around and spy on people that there had to be a serious redistribution of work.
"Dear lord," Camille whispered with a surprisingly naughty smile on her face. "I love scandalised gossip!"
