Chapter 38

• Once dinner ended, the torture began.
• Dinner was delicious, I reminded myself. I tried to think of the chicken cordon bleu, with butter braised asparagus and fresh made biscuits. Dessert consisted of homemade vanilla bean ice cream topped with cherries jubilee, which was also wonderful. Lucas, his wife, and I drank water and a wildberry melomel. I’d never tried melomel before, but I absolutely adored it. Overall, dinner was exceptional.
• After dinner, though, Lucas’s wife, Lucy, suggested we retire to the smoking room.