"None at all, dearone. I was simply somewhat surprised that you did it is all." You and me both." Deirdre grumbled with a toss of his head that saidmo...re about him and his gender than he cared to look too closely at beforegoing on. "I told you I would do this, didn't I? A real Lady rewardsthose who deserve it, doesn't she?" Of course she does," Garret agreed, linking arms with Deirdre andguiding the youth towards the palace stairs. "So I am vindicated in mychoice of ladies, don't you think?" I. Une knew all the people in the village, and the family she described were some relatively poor freeholders who farmed goats just above the village. Heaven only knows what they thought of a provocatively dressed girl like Twelve who probably had no sympathy or understanding at all of country ways! Normally, Une would have had very little time or sympathy for someone like Twelve, but after the circumstances of their meeting – in which she’d betrayed rather more interest than she normally would. "And the phone won't stop ringing either. They started before I got up and we're just not set up for handling all the requests," Grace told them."There isn't, by any chance, a standard operating procedure for dealing with this, is there?" I asked the diplomats."I'm afraid there's nothing in the manual about a sixteen year old Prince with his pair of beautiful wives turning this town on its collective ear," he replied with a smile. "However, all is not lost. I'll be right back."Two things. Elyse is the right person, at least for now. I guess in the future, your sister will handle the administrative hiring.”“Six years from now, when we all work for her!” I chuckled.“So she finally gets things back to where she wants them - bossing you around?” Julia laughed.“Yeah,” I acknowledged with a smile. “Did you hear back from Jamie?”“I did. He knew one of the partners at that firm, so he called him and explained the situation. They admitted everything and Jamie is working out the details..