“Nonsense.” Audrey cuddled Archimedes to her. “Cats never go anywhere they don’t choose to. During the fight, he actually attacked one of the men, Lord Augersley, before I grabbed him from under the table. Yet he didn’t fight me at all, did you?” She scratched behind Archimedes’s ears.
“Good Lord.” Gillian groaned and started for the door. Audrey sensed something deeper was going on with her maid. She’d been quieter this morning. Usually Gillian was talkative, at least to her. Audrey had her suspicions as to what made her friend so pensive. If she hadn’t wanted to be bothered, she would have tidied up and left Audrey’s chambers, yet she had lingered, as though wishing for Audrey to ask what was bothering her.
“We’re really not going to talk about it?” she asked gently, which made Gillian
