OOM: for Cosette

[idareyou]

The next time Mary sees Cosette in Milliways, she jumps up and claps her hands. "Cosette! Oh, Cosette, don't go anywhere, stay right where you are! Well, no, do come somewhere, but don't run off, I want to invite you to Stirling, like we talked about. And I brought an extra set of clothing, it's up in a room, of course if anyone gets a good look at you they'll wonder who you are, so we will want to stay hidden, but I think I can get a room all to myself, it is Sunday and they'll all go to Mass, but I can say I have a headache and want to stay in bed. It is not a very big lie, because I did have a headache."

She pauses--not just for breath, but to see if Cosette is looking at all inclined to come along. If not, Mary can be persuasive! "You must come and see, you said you wanted to see a proper Scottish castle on a crag, and Stirling is very Scottish and very much on a crag."

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[lark_in_flight]

"Oh!"

She asked, and Marius said he didn't object, and she's been looking forward to the prospect, but it's still a surprise to have the prospect right before her. Going to Scotland! Right now!

"Oh -- oh, yes, I shall! Let me just --" Do what? Duck back to Paris? But Marius already said, and what if time goes strange, as it so often does? Leave a note with Bar? But to what purpose, really? "--Well, yes, all right!"

She's starting to beam now, as the excitement of just -- just leaving on a trip, right now! Without her father, without her husband, without a servant accompanying her; outside her house, outside her very city, into another city and another country! Just her, to a dear friend's home! She's never done anything half so wild. But it's all proper, all the same.

"Yes, let's! Just show me the dress, I'd love to come, even if it's just a little storeroom I shall still be delighted!"