DrabbleWriMo 7: Secretary
8 November 2021 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI hadn't realised just how much in "The Yellow Poppy" does depend on chance; that Gaston's foster-brother and trusted friend has never set eyes on the woman to whom he was married for nearly twenty years (although the author does make it clear that Valentine almost never visited the Saint-Chamans ancestral estates, and hints that the Duc and the Abbé had not been on good terms since the birth of Roland in the early years of the Trélan marriage), and that Valentine's suitor has never set eyes on the husband of the woman he loves (although the author does make it clear that he fell in love with her when they met at a resort outside France, and that husband and wife were fairly distant by this time).
And a further improbable chance is that neither of these two men, both intimately connected with the Trélan family, have ever visited that family's great château of Mirabel near Paris before. I'm not quite sure what the plot significance of that was, since a couple of visits in the old days wouldn't really have been any help to them in their treasure-seeking in any case, but perhaps it helped to make the other absences of acquaintance more likely...
I couldn't make the term 'secretary' fit anywhere in the Abbé's visit to Mirabel, but after a great deal of soul-searching I did manage to locate a scene from earlier that could just about be said to fit. So the episode of de Brencourt's visit now gets three whole drabbles ;-p
And if I can use the prompt 'Host' for the Mass, then I can push the whole duel/betrayal plotline later...
And a further improbable chance is that neither of these two men, both intimately connected with the Trélan family, have ever visited that family's great château of Mirabel near Paris before. I'm not quite sure what the plot significance of that was, since a couple of visits in the old days wouldn't really have been any help to them in their treasure-seeking in any case, but perhaps it helped to make the other absences of acquaintance more likely...
I couldn't make the term 'secretary' fit anywhere in the Abbé's visit to Mirabel, but after a great deal of soul-searching I did manage to locate a scene from earlier that could just about be said to fit. So the episode of de Brencourt's visit now gets three whole drabbles ;-p
And if I can use the prompt 'Host' for the Mass, then I can push the whole duel/betrayal plotline later...
She was to make a statement for the benefit of the Minister of Police, and M. Georges Camain would be so good as to write it down. Valentine wondered just how much lying would be required of her now that they had captured the Comte de Brencourt -- poor man! But surely nothing could be proved while they thought he was a mere housebreaker...
She watched the quill moving jerkily while Camain copied down her answers. But it was not fear for her former suitor's peril that haunted her so, but the knowledge he had brought: that Gaston was dead.