"Yes," she responds, perhaps far too eagerly. Sybil cannot help that his words excite her, there are too few here that are from a time as far behind them as her own, and it is a perspective that cannot be easily explained away for all that she has indeed tried. "The myriad of privileges that we all have in this place stuns me, and yet it seems all people want some of the time is more of it. I know the girls I go to school with-"
She stops herself, shaking her head at what she had been about to say. Instead she chooses different words, more careful ones, leaning back in her seat. "I would happily have given up all that we had at Downton should we be able to live like this, all of us."
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Date: 2013-09-23 01:19 am (UTC)She stops herself, shaking her head at what she had been about to say. Instead she chooses different words, more careful ones, leaning back in her seat. "I would happily have given up all that we had at Downton should we be able to live like this, all of us."