Once a Doormat, Now Untouchable
Why was I born to crawl in the mud?
"Madam, Ms. Monroe, the one Ms. Mayer mentioned on the phone yesterday, has arrived," the maid announced.
At the doorway, Jason stopped her briefly. Only after a voice inside offered a flat acknowledgment did he gesture for her to enter.
Inside the hall, Eloise held a teacup, her sharp, calculating gaze sweeping over Penelope. Her presence felt far more formidable than Dorothy's. The Hampton matriarch, at least most of the time, could still appear kind.