DrabbleWriMo 25: Gossip

Day 25: the end is in sight. (Oddly enough it still feels like quite a long way before the end of the *plot*...)

It was hard, so hard to wait while she could do nothing and Gaston's life hung in the balance...

"Roland, if tomorrow night's scheme should fail... I have heard that Madame Bonaparte is greedy for jewels, they say, and of Royalist leanings. If I offered her the Mirabel rubies, the last of the treasure, would she use her influence with her husband, do you think?"

Roland looked startled. "Forgive me, but — would the Duc endorse such a step?"

"I should appeal as one wife to another... without touching his pride."

Only Gaston would not approve. She knew that too well.