Chapter 21: Lady Middleton has just been cooing over her sweet, quiet little daughter, who promptly starts screaming when she is scratched with a pin.

She was seated in her mother's lap, covered with kisses, her wound bathed with lavender-water, by one of the Miss Steeles...and her mouth stuffed with sugar plums by the other. With such a reward for her tears, the child was too wise to cease crying.